Comments on: Second Life shops empty, as lawsuit rages over sex toy

By: biber

biber — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:05:41 +0000

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By: Noel

Noel — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:25:41 +0000

Once again, someone on their moral high horse having no clue to what this virtual world is about. I’ve seen this finger wagging before–or at least I’ve heard the sanctimonious sermon on high before.

As someone stated, if corporations had issues with ‘brothels’ Vegas and many other cash cows would be closed down.

Get real…that’s right, its not real, it’s the virtual world.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:38:48 +0000

Another amazing development at SL.

Who would have thought about it becoming like a brothel? Actually, it is not a very fair statement.

The internet itself is one big virtual brothel!

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:21:42 +0000

“Corporations are failing just because they are entering Second Life with a real life approach instead of learning and adapt to the completely different enviroment. In other words they don’t know what the hell are doing!

That about sums it up. I have seen RL marketing companies bring big clients into Second Life and do the most ineffective marketing I can imagine. The American Apparel land and store, honestly, it sucked. The design was small, the look was bland and MOST of all the clothing was designed by someone who no idea at all in any shape or form how to design clothing. Any new player could have made any of that clothing in the first 10 min of playing. They failed because no one took the time to do it right. It’s that simple, if you want to throw money at Second Life than throw it in the right direction because RL marketing companies have no idea what they are doing in the game.

By: QT

QT — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:44:06 +0000

Amazing that SL is considered a brothel when those who have succeeded in supporting themselves full-time with their efforts do so by engaging in such elicit activities such as clothing creation, virtual real estate transactions, avatar creation, etc. Using the analogies provided by this blogger, one should assume the above highly esteemed morality-based retailers such as American Apparel would shun such RL locales such as Las Vegas or Atlantic City since some activities don’t meet the standards of Memorial Church on 1st Street.

The real reason Best Buy doesn’t make money in SL is because they haven’t figured it out yet. RL people are making RL money in SL — and so far, the difficulties of Wall Street succeeding in this virtual Wild West are because they have no real interest in it. They cannot win this game from the board room, and until they click on and sign up, they will continue to lose to the mom-and-pop shops that have already figured this market out.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:25:55 +0000

“Maybe…just maybe Mr. John Pospisil would have found something more interesting to say if he had the time to be in-world for a while and see what’s really going on…which he obviously didn’t.”

He’d probably find it boring. As I have.

By: David MacGuire

David MacGuire — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:26:28 +0000

One thing that Second Life requires is a rather large investment of time and personnel resources. Companies like New Line Cinema, IBM, Sun, SAIC, MITRE, BMP’s Information Week and Dr Dobb’s Portal have all made major investments in Second Life and it has paid off with succesful training programs, packed seminars and increased business for them. Companies that go into Second Life need to realize that a lot of subscribers are in there because they are fleeing the gross commercialization of public entertainment. They don’t want ads in their fantasy lives, whatever those fantasies might be. Corporate sites in SL are best when they are there to provide flawless customer service, answer questions, entertain and educate customers.

By: Ceeq Laborde

Ceeq Laborde — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:09:25 +0000

For the love of god, read http://gigaom.com/2007/07/12/debunking-5-business-myths-about-second-life/

By: Pompo Bombacci

Pompo Bombacci — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 05:06:23 +0000

Second Life just like the internet is an extension of your own self…if you are a weirdo in real life or on the internet chances are ya gonna end up as a weirdo in SL too…if you are a creative person, a photoshop guru, an architect, an artist, a photographer… you gonna develop your own products and make a few bucks while ya having fun.

Maybe…just maybe Mr. John Pospisil would have found something more interesting to say if he had the time to be in-world for a while and see what’s really going on…which he obviously didn’t.

Reading and mixing bits and pieces of articles wrote by other uniformed people only leads to yet another gossip column.

Corporations are failing just because they are entering Second Life with a real life approach instead of learning and adapt to the completely different enviroment. In other words they don’t know what the hell are doing! Give second life users a reason to come and stay to your sim and they will come and stay, but dont just hand them you brochure and knock on wood…DUH!

Great title too BTW.