Gambling sector shut down: what now?
So what now? The gambling sector has been shut down and with it, much of the ways for any free accounts check out Second Life.
While I haven’t resorted to drinking yet, somehow, we have to make ends meet. Unlike other MMOs, there are no monsters to slay for gold and no treasure to hunt. In fact, I remember back in the day when Basic accounts actually had a stipend. It wasn’t much, but it got you around. Now, the poor just get poorer. Sounds a lot of real life doesn’t it? I wonder when we’re going to start inviting those guys in Entropia to come over and do the jobs we don’t want to do. Land of the free right? Well… maybe.
For now, it seems like I’ll be mopping up blood for a little bit of cash. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Don’t be surprised if find me on your street corner panhandling and hoping for just a couple Lindens to feed my new addiction.
And in case anyone was wondering… that pool of blood was a couple casino owners jumping from a highrise. Yeah, it’s a sad day today. Oh, so very sad. If you’re waiting for me to sell myself, give me a couple days. I have to get used to sleeping in a cardboard box, and begging from Evansmom for scraps.
My prediction? Next on the list to go is the sex world of Second Life. Hipihi here we come. We’re not all that far from it really. And if that’s the case, then count on me to be on the first wave of the mass exodus from this virtual world to escape into another.
Who needs voice chat and all those features?
Not I.
Not I.
I’m busying mopping up the blood.
July 26th, 2007 • 
Darius Sartre • 
comment | July 30, 2007 at 03:29 | individual comment-link
It’s a complete fallacy that Sl only has sex and gambling to do in-world.
I was going to rant in this comment, but decided to post myself on it!
comment | July 30, 2007 at 03:45 | individual comment-link
It’s called satire.
comment | July 30, 2007 at 05:42 | individual comment-link
Ok… I read it again, feeling sure I must have missed the big pointers in the last four lines. The trouble is I think sex IS next on the hit list, no irony intended. It seems to me that - for whatever reason - SL is moving from a libertarian paradise where anything goes as long as it isn’t illegal and doesn’t hurt anyone, to a place with a lot of rules about content. They have already banned age play, gambling and sex in the popular places list.
I put the fact that I missed the satire in your piece down to the fact that I meet a lot of sad people who do rely on the popular places list for their entertainment, which was sex and gambling, basically, until it got tweaked by the Lindens.
However, I apologise for being dense. I can only say it’s a good job I deleted my original comments and took some time to compile the what to do article lol!
comment | July 30, 2007 at 05:54 | individual comment-link
Yeah…. well… here’s the thing. I did note (after the fact)that those in EU might not get the whole political perspective since it’s more of our end of things here in the States. The knee jerk reaction of Entropia thing is a tweak at the whole illegal immigrant thing in the US going on.
I loved your comments though… and I do agree that there is a lot more to do than just sex and gambling.
It’s funny. With all the banning going on right now, you would imagine things like WSE and Ginko would also get banned. In all technicality, banking and stocks are not regulated and could become another “legal” issue for Linden.
Argh. You know what? I don’t see why they don’t just leave everything alone. The world has its joys too (1st life) and also its seedy things. You don’t want to play, don’t play in those areas. They just don’t want legal issues. It’s rather unfortunate that they want to create a virtual community and world that sort of plays off real life, but yet won’t regulate the virtual community and takes the easy way out (banning).
You would think with 100+ employees, regulation would be in there somewhere.
Oh well. Makes me sad.
But the good thing is that with all the banning, it gives me something good to write about! Since I’m too lazy to actually mess with prims like you. lol.
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