Second Life land value, premium accounts decline

http://thestandard.com/news/2008/07/01/second-life-users-spending-more-time-world-are-they-paying

by ilamont • 18 years ago

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jrockway2• 18 years ago

Wow, screenshots of Excel spreadsheets? I hear HTML has a <table> tag for that sort of thing.

graywh• 18 years ago

Yeah, but those are for layouts. ;)

LogicHoleFlaw• 18 years ago

sigh

I get screenshots of Excel spreadsheets... embedded in Word documents. On a regular basis.

fourlittlebees• 18 years ago

So it makes more sense to recreate a table than grab a screenshot? I'm all for hand-coding HTML, but I'd rather grab a quick shot than type tr, td all day long.

jrockway2• 18 years ago

You must be one of those folks that designs their web site in photoshop and then just uploads the image to the server.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

thorax• 18 years ago

Second Life recently substantially cut prices for their "new" island sales. I think it's likely the decreased land sales figures could be caused by that big price drop-- and not necessarily showing less demand for virtual land. More people may be buying from Linden rather than others.

Still, not the sort of trends Linden would want people to be thinking too deeply about.

rms• 18 years ago

In MMOGs, the value of in-game assets inevitably declines. If you could short the WoW gold, that would be a great move. Just be ready for the Chinese New Year price fluctuation.

byrneseyeview3• 18 years ago

Shouldn't you be able to short it? If you have a good in-game and out-game reputation, would you be able to borrow gold, convert to cash, and then convert cash to gold when your debt comes due?

iron_ball• 18 years ago

Yes, but for anyone with any professional skills at all, that kind of arbitrage just isn't a good time investment compared to real work. I did the math once. WoW doesn't really permit economies of scale on this sort of thing -- there are no free markets, so you have to go through uniformly shady RMT ("Real Money Trading") brokers who will be quick to freeze you out if they sense you're making a mass profit over their channels.

wmf• 18 years ago

Besides what iron_ball said, in-game loans are usually unregulated and thus unreliable.

babul• 18 years ago

As we see global property recession/dip in the real world, will will see this in virtual worlds like Second Life et al?

Second Life land value, premium accounts decline

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