Survey for Second Life Users: How Many SLers Will Become Sansar Users This Year, and How About You?

Regular SL users: Now that we're seeing and learning more about Sansar, here's a survey of personal and community interest. As a baseline, Linden Lab reports there are 500-600 creator/users already in Sansar, and and over 10,000 people on the waiting list. Here's some more background:

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[Marianne McCann]

I suspect many will. Not me, however, as they're not supporting Macintosh.

[Pamela]

Glad being a Mac user excuses me from having to make any kind of decision. Because I really have enough to do running a business in SL.

[Kitty Revolver]

Well, F, given they won't support Mac, I won't be an early adopter, but I do have a Windows partition on my Mac. I want to amend mine and say that I am more of a maybe than a "including me" I will see how it all works out!

[Wagner J Au]

Wait what, I thought LL said a Mac client was coming later. Did I miss something?

[Wade]

There is a mac client coming in the future but might be 2d only because Apple is not supporting vr at the moment.

[Blaze DeVivre]

It is complicated. I will use it, I will check it out, but my home is and will be SL. There is still a lot to do in SL, my friends and family are there. I have no interest in VR goggles.

[Apostol Apostolov]

I don't have a Vive although I have a VR-ready PC and can afford 1k headset. I am waiting for the 2017 Windows 10 compatible headsets, there have been a few shown at CES 2017 that show some promise. Thar said, I will probably not join Sansar any time soon, and will remain fully dedicated to SL.

[Kennedy]

Most of SL doesn't even want this mess, so it's going to fail and shows just how much LL still does not understand SL and its users. SL is not a game it's home for many people. And most of the people who use SL do it while watching their kids, at work, cooking, or multitasking in a million other ways which render the VR headset absolutely useless.

[Han Held]

I don't think current SL users are the target demographic? I'm not sure who is, but it ain't us! The $64k question is ...will their target demographic give a toot and pay for this?

[Madeline blackbart]

I'll be trying it but whether I stay or not is another issue. I like many do not have a vr headset (outside of using google cardboard with my iPod) or a computer that can do that as of yet. If it works well with non vr it may have a chance. That said I think one of the biggest issues sl has holding it back and Sansar as well is how terrible customer support is with linden labs honestly. How can something go big or mainstream if the company doesn't care about there users and blatantly shows it like linden labs does. And yes I and many users have very clear examples of the happening.

[The Coffeehouse]

Simple for me I will sign up to reserve my name(s) then go back to SL to sell as much as possible for as long as I can with having too much invested in full perm content & resources plus my Avatars .

In meantime other platforms are starting to come in that might worth investing in further but only time will tell for me.

One thing for certain never will my time be wasted like it was in Inworldz,Kitely or Opensim Worlds! no promises of getting better or "new exciting features coming soon!".. NOPE!!! ..the thing that drags me out of SL better have every bell & whistle already done and desired FOR THE MOST PART! NO inworld building tools like Space has done was a no starter for me too..Had I wanted to just live in a completely social world then I would still be in Smallworlds or IMVU today.

High Fidelity might be worth retrying in 2020

[sirhc deSantis]

Hmm as others have stated will be in to reserve the moniker - if that is not another thing that evaporates just like the dosh did. That aside, plonked for 10 to 100k as it sort of matches SL logged in numbers (between 30 - 50k ish over the day) but with a very loose definition of 'regular'. There are a few places I log in to once a week to clear any messages - would that count?

There are quite a few alternatives popping up and again tend to dip toes in but...plus the 3d toy stuff still leaves me a bit 'meh'.

TBH also decided to concentrate more on basically 2 'worlds' for a bit. Was feeling a bit stretched thin.

[Stuart Goddard]

I think Sansar will be like Trump - a lot of people say they won't support it, but they secretly will.

[Amanda Dallin]

I'll try it but I don't see myself moving from SL to anywhere else anytime soon. I have to much invested in SL both emotionally and financially.

[Flashing Merlin]

Seems optimistic to think it will actually open to the public this year. As long as it stays in Beta, it can't be declared a failure, and Ebbe gets to keep his job another year.

[YsabelleStewart]

I'll be signing up to Sansar at the first opportunity. Though I certainly won't be abandoning SL any time soon.

[Lars Avatar]

I haven't invested a lot of money in SL inventory, so I'll be moving to Sansar when it comes out. I already know C#, so scripting in Sansar should be easier for me. Also, I want the option to eventually use VR headsets with the home I build -- that won't ever be a pleasant experience in SL.

[Skate Foss]

I like Flash Merlins comment. As a mac user I won't be able to enter, but don't forget when SL was in its early stages, it was PC only also. Sansar certainly looks interesting. If I had a PC I would def have an avatar in Sansar, but I too have too much invested here in SecondLife to just abandon my friends and sim and all I've done here for a brand new platform.

[Sarah]

I feel like people have forgotten what made SL so magical: normal people who are not artists or engineers or rich people could create things. The power of that cannot and must not be minimized. SL was a study in how thought becomes reality, how pixels and molecules are not all that different, and what happens when the thoughts-into-reality of more than one person intersect. Understanding "I think therefore I am" in a different way. How something can be both entirely mundane and mindblowingly mystical at the same time. How to look at your physical world in a different way because you got used to walking through SL and discovering how people built what they did. All from the magic of making ANYTHING from one virtual plywood cube.

[kio]

I will move from SL to Sansar as long as it's not all censored and "safe". One of SL's greatest qualities, and I suspect the reason it's lasted so long, is that it's a truly free and open platform to do and create whatever you want, however "naughty" that might be. If Linden want to retain all the users and money that goes along with that, they should keep the same principle in Sansar.

[Mariko Nightfire]

As I can't move my inventory to Sansar, I won't be moving to Sansar. And, as SL winds down, at some point I'll leave virtual worlds altogether.

[Blaze Nielsen]

without a mac version I won't be interested in creating for sansar.

[Anonymous]

If Sansar becomes a haven for artists and people who can use new graphic technology to express themselves, I have to say that's an attractive prospect. SL may have an established user base, but its graphics platform is old. I also think a lot of current and former users of SL are or are growing tired of SL as it is - or have moved on already. Not everyone wants to do the same things (clubs, live singers, vampire stuff, drama, quick relationships) forever.