Comments on: Gee-whiz or Gee-ker-flop? http://cybergate9.net/blog/2006/09/14/gee-whiz-or-gee-ker-flop/ Views from my end of the telescope... Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:32:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: reBang weblog http://cybergate9.net/blog/2006/09/14/gee-whiz-or-gee-ker-flop/#comment-40 reBang weblog Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:07:40 +0000 http://cybergate9.net/blog/2006/09/14/gee-whiz-or-gee-ker-flop/#comment-40 <strong>The Innovation of Insecurity...</strong> A week or so back I read a post over on the Cybergate9 blog (Link) and was tempted to jump in with a comment. But I was busy. Soon after I happened across a post on 3pointD (Link) and got off a short comment, but didn’t have time to follow it up... The Innovation of Insecurity…

A week or so back I read a post over on the Cybergate9 blog (Link) and was tempted to jump in with a comment. But I was busy. Soon after I happened across a post on 3pointD (Link) and got off a short comment, but didn’t have time to follow it up…

]]> By: Kyim Quirk http://cybergate9.net/blog/2006/09/14/gee-whiz-or-gee-ker-flop/#comment-33 Kyim Quirk Thu, 14 Sep 2006 21:45:49 +0000 http://cybergate9.net/blog/2006/09/14/gee-whiz-or-gee-ker-flop/#comment-33 I can feel reverberations in your words here. Things that strum like thoughts in myself and that of others than I have been sharing the SL metaverse with. I am personally of the opinion that we are going to see, if we are not already, large areas of the grid that are going to block the anonymous users from access to their areas. Some of the new subcontinents are going to be such spaces. The tools are there in what the Lindens have provided over they last few updates since the Open Registration happened. So we are soon going to see a LOT of 'paid members only' areas. And it wouldn't surprise me to see some of the nightlife spots begin to require a 'cover charge' of L$10 to L$100. Then put that collected L$ into a pot to either improve the space or supply the prize L$ that is given out. 'Free' Accounts, with their low L$ ballances are going to get more and more frozen out of the high value content. Yet there will always be 'free' areas. All of the Linden Land will always be free. But you bring up other good points, how it's not the people who are there FIRST that always make the big success. World of Warcraft sure wasn't first. If SecondLife is the UO or EQ of the Virtual World type of 'Metaverse' application... well, I can't WAIT to see what's next, and it's going to be an interesting time over the next decade. I can feel reverberations in your words here. Things that strum like thoughts in myself and that of others than I have been sharing the SL metaverse with.

I am personally of the opinion that we are going to see, if we are not already, large areas of the grid that are going to block the anonymous users from access to their areas. Some of the new subcontinents are going to be such spaces.

The tools are there in what the Lindens have provided over they last few updates since the Open Registration happened.

So we are soon going to see a LOT of ‘paid members only’ areas. And it wouldn’t surprise me to see some of the nightlife spots begin to require a ‘cover charge’ of L$10 to L$100. Then put that collected L$ into a pot to either improve the space or supply the prize L$ that is given out.

‘Free’ Accounts, with their low L$ ballances are going to get more and more frozen out of the high value content.

Yet there will always be ‘free’ areas. All of the Linden Land will always be free.

But you bring up other good points, how it’s not the people who are there FIRST that always make the big success. World of Warcraft sure wasn’t first.

If SecondLife is the UO or EQ of the Virtual World type of ‘Metaverse’ application… well, I can’t WAIT to see what’s next, and it’s going to be an interesting time over the next decade.

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