Good piece on SL

on Saturday, July 15th, 2006 at 6:29 pm

This is a pretty decent piece on SL. Gets the idea across fairly well.
Though I disagree with Hamlet’s description of of trying to get across SL to someone as “If someone’s comfortable with technology and gaming, I’ll just say [Second Life is] ‘World of Warcraft, but all user-created”.
I think the best analogy for SL is the Web itself - with Sims == web server. Builds == web pages. Like the web, you have shared hosting (sims with multiple resis - think first land sims), all the way to dedicated servers (ie: owning an island). You have nice, well designed pages == nice builds. Like the web, the majority is user created content. Like the web, it’s full of diversity in terms of what you can be doing at any given moment. WoW really is just the geek golf.

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One Response to “Good piece on SL”

1. Ziggy Quirk Says:
   July 19th, 2006 at 4:31 pm

   That’s actually not a bad anaology. I’d say claiming SL was like WoW butuser created would give the false impression that there’s set goals in place.

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