The Small Cute Puppy Has Fallen So Far

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Scott Jennings| 13 Comments

Pic courtesy of NWN

Second Life markets itself to the Facebook generation as…

um…

There are issues here.

(Hat tip: New World Notes)

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  • http://Website VPellen

    Well, it’s not TECHNICALLY a lie.

  • http://Website Hatch

    Puppy mills are probably coming to farmville anyway.

  • http://Website Boanerges

    The problem is the ad doesn’t enumerate the ways you can “play” with them…

  • http://stabbedup.blogspot.com/ Stabs

    “The problem is the ad doesn’t enumerate the ways you can “play” with them…”

    I’m a tiger, baby. Roar, roar.

  • http://geldonsgaming.blogspot.com/ geldonyetich

    Hai, I’m new to Second Life, how you raise and play? I want to ride them all.

  • http://Website Vetarnias

    And I laughed when they came up with the Tamagotchi.

  • http://Website Aufero

    That virtual puppy is suffering from a bad case of uncanny valley taxidermy.

  • http://uk.europe1400.com Siegerich

    “If only 0,25% …” That’s kind of familiar what some boss said about any big game hit like guitar hero, GTA etc. Surprisingly, everything copied for that reason failed. Hint for shotguns and miniguns: you should at least direct to an area at least possible containing a goal you can penetrate with your bullets. Otherwise the 0,25% becomes a 0,0025%, and another question here for the number folks: how long will how many those converted users stay?

    Btw.: could we just announce SL as dead, and go on to other topics please? We adult enough to know its hype is over, aren’t we? (Any business people here?)

  • Scott Jennings

    Btw.: could we just announce SL as dead, and go on to other topics please? We adult enough to know its hype is over, aren’t we?

    While the mass media hype may be over, SL still has subscriber/user numbers/revenue comparable to any 1st tier MMO not named World of Warcraft.

  • http://Website JeremyT


    Scott Jennings:

    Btw.: could we just announce SL as dead, and go on to other topics please? We adult enough to know its hype is over, aren’t we?

    While the mass media hype may be over, SL still has subscriber/user numbers/revenue comparable to any 1st tier MMO not named World of Warcraft.

    To be fair to World of Warcraft, wouldn’t such MMOs pretty much by definition be second tier?

    For what it’s worth, Second Life really is something substantially different from Diku clones or facebook games. Too bad for Linden Labs, the thing that it happens to be is also apparently substantially harder to monetize, so it’s no wonder they’re trying to fool people into playing by dressing it up in social game clothing.

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  • http://Website CmdrSlack

    The post title was an old LTM reference tho, right? I seem to recall some humorous puppy posts of old.

    I tried to use SL a while back and discovered that everyone I knew was gone, even the old Feted Core or whatev.

    Not to mention, stock SL client sucks and I can’t be arsed to look for a good one.

  • http://Website Dblade

    So does Maple Story, Scott. I don’t see it here.