Kaneva and my first month

I know I have been absent from the VTOR Blog for most of the last month. I have been exploring and attempting to build in the World of Kaneva. What I think I have really been doing is trying to find something good to say about Kaneva, but am finding that a hard accomplishment to achieve.

My Kaneva apartment Could you guess I am an LSU Fan?

I full well understand Kaneva is in beta testing and trying to get all the bugs worked out, but when Kaneva went open beta should have said that most of the bugs have been worked out and people can began socializing and having a good time inside their world…. but that is just not the case. I have been able to crash Kaneva several times to the point it takes kaneva’s browser about 5 minutes or longer to scan my system and build up a report to send into the developers, and after putting together the report it will take another minute to 3 minutes to pass all that data to them… and yes I have a rather high speed connection. Each time I have managed to crash kaneva I have signed my reports and given a contact email address where they might contact me back… has that ever happened….. nooooo!

They claim they wanted people that could break the game and furnish complete reports about what they were doing when the break down occurred… you would at least think they would take the courtesy to respond to the extra effort I put into trying to furnish as much information, which lead to the event causing the crash, as I could possibly include.

Renee and Me

Don’t take all the negative I am going to throw out in this article to far into the negative circle… In fact I guess I should tell you now about when my best friend Renee and I ran across this little place about 4 years ago that we thought might have a bit of promise and went to see just what was available in this place called Second Life… Both She and I were already webmasters, myself a true beginner and she a well experienced money maker from the web and attempting to mentor a hard headed beginner… anyway we went into this place called… hell I am not even sure it was called Second Life yet, It was still so new that what few people we saw looked so bad we laughed our butts off at how cartoonish they looked, and there was not very much content in the world at all. Still we looked around and laughed and decided that in time this could be something worth watching… we were intrigued enough to look around for an affiliate program which we were going to join and send traffic that direction, but their affiliate link didn’t work…. so we blew it off.

She and I both greatly regret letting that little event pass us by as the world expanded into Second Life, and grew up without us. I finally joined in Second Life a little over a year ago and begged Renee to come on into it with me then. She waited a year to finally come in and was so piss off at me for not nagging her to come in much sooner.

Now here comes Kanvea and I slide right over there and start trying to get invited into the closed beta test and of course I want my best friend to not be able to say I left her in the dark, so I called Renee and told her about kaneva… well we both remember that we had made a rather large mistake by not getting into Second life in its early days, so we are both over in kaneva now trying to be on the cutting edge of what we both think to be a good idea. But will it really be anything close to what Second Life is?

The avatars are so ugly they are almost scary…. but the first time I went into Second Life that was the case there also.

I like the fact that kaneva wants the learning curve not to be so steep that so many new people are overwhelmed and leave the “game” before even getting an idea of what can be accomplished, but ones ability to build is so limited at this time it is frustrating, and that is only the beginning of Kaneva’s problems.

Kaneva wants to create an environment in which both adults and young people can have fun, which is noble, but failing miserably at this time. There is a reason adults often want to be able to get away from kids to enjoy their recreational time and vice-versa. The maturity levels are simply to far apart in most cases. In Kaneva you can not get away from “annoying immature individuals” (poor substitute for the adjectives and noun I wanted to use) even in your own apartment.

The biggest boondoggle Kaneva is committing, in my opinion, is a serious lack of communication with the users of Kaneva. Emails go unanswered, announcements go unfulfilled, forums ignored, and user created content…. well that is a whole new post!