SL Go, the Second Life streaming service from OnLive (which I occasionally consult and partner with) is now available for weekly subscription for Linden Dollars -- for a limited time, at least. "Paying for SL Go with L$ has been one of the most common requests we have received in our forums and chat rooms," OnLive's Dennis Harper notes in the announcement. You can buy weekly subscriptions for L$650 (i.e. less than 3 bucks US), and buy up to 4 weeks at a time. (For new user accounts only, for reasons explained below.) Click here to sign-up in-world, or put this Second Life map address into the 3rd party viewer of your choice:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sunny%20Dream/230/147/22
While I'm not consulting or partnered with OnLive at the moment, I am biased about the streaming service for mobile devices and low-end laptops, I genuinely think it's a pretty great service, and it's cool that SLers can finally try it out for Linden Dollars. The sign-up process is fairly fun, too: After you go to the entrance lobby (above), you then need to teleport to a secure location. Which looks like this:
Fill out the details like the sign says, and you're ready to go SL Go.
As I said, the L$ payment option is only being offered for new accounts, and there's a reason for that: "[E]xisting users with monthly subscriptions will need to wait for this feature," as Dennis explains. "It is much more complex to transition an account from US Dollars to Linden Dollars." However, OnLive hope to have that feature available soon.
If you do try it out, please share you reactions and technical notes below -- I'll ask the OnLive team to check them out as they can.
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