Are they having any more fun?

Filed under: Odds and Ends, Mixed Reality

Plenty of folks express fond wishes that updates in Second Life were more like (for example) those of World of Warcraft. The indefatigable Elizabeth Wachowski, Mike Schramm and David Nelson and their able cohorts over at WoWInsider note that update days are no more fun over at World of Warcraft than they are in Second Life. Of course you're not trying to make a buck out of WoW, unless you're a Gold Farmer or some-such.

What do they complain about over on the other side of the fence? Unduly long times to download the patch, crashes, lag, sudden disconnection, things behaving erratically, or not working at all for days, and 12 hours of downtime to do the update.

It's like a whole different world, isn't it? You know, over there where a company is behaving like a real business with 7.5 million paying customers. They even gave 50 cents worth of credit to compensate for the days of problems.

"The grass is always greener (on the other side of the fence) until you have to mow it."

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