Watch MMO YouTubers Try Second Life & Come Away Wondering "WTF"

This is a bit embarrassing to watch as a former Linden Lab guy, pretty much akin to finding out someone you invited to a party at your house is rummaging around in the spare room you haven't cleaned in a year -- but also painfully amusing. Shot by MMO Byte, a fairly popular YouTube channel for MMO "Let's Play" videos, I do hope folks at Linden Lab not to mention longtime SLers give it a look to see how perplexing Second Life can be, even to hardcore MMO gamers. Ironically, the SL orientation area is a lot more interesting than it used to be, but it still leaves them wondering WTF. A core reason for that is social. To wit:

Why is a fricking a furry with human genitalia wandering around the orientation area? But that community management issue aside, it's frustrating to know there's so much great SL content that would appeal to MMO gamers that is literally just a single click away, that people like this never see, since they're likely to never return. (But warn everyone about the furry peen poised to hit people in the face.)

Comments

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[Patchouli Woollahra]

In some regards, SL's orientation experience has unfortunately kind of wound up being a bit like Arrakis - whatever its original intentions, people doing extremely stupid things in it who wouldn't be present in a similar experience in, say, .Space, kind of dents it. Faced with this, it takes either a good mentor by your side or bloodymindedness to keep persisting. I had the fortune to have both back in 2006. The same cannot be easily said for many newcomers these days outside of select actively crewed experiences.