Survey Results: Under New Corporate Ownership, Plurality of Second Life Community Pessimistic About the Future of Their Virtual World

Here's the results of our not-super-scientific survey asking SLers how they feel about the future of Second Life under its new corporate ownership. With 212 respondents (a quite large sample size), the plurality chose "Pessimistic" as their attitude, while 1 in 3 chose "Optimistic". Meanwhile, 1 in 4 say it doesn't change their opinion either way.

As with surveys like this, there's alternate ways to read these results:

You could say the community is leaning toward Pessimism -- or that the news has left the majority feeling either Optimistic or indifferent. In either case, it is notable that over a third of the community who took the survey have a dark view for the future of their world.

More soon!

Comments

[Marianne McCann]

I guess saying that the results were kinda a push doesn't make for a good headline?

[irihapeti]

when the day comes that a majority of blog and forum reader residents express outright optimism about Linden will be the same day that ponies finally get to fly in the real world with rainbows on

/me looks for my rainbow wings :)

[sirhc desantis]

Not all that unexpected (and will stick to my inworld flying rainbow pony thank you kindly iri-san!).
Would be interesting to actually run a poll rezzed inworld so that people had to get off their posteriors and log in to vote.
Circa 200 ish responses? Simple booth well within LSL capabilities for that number complete with dupe checks (200 UUIDs not exactly a huge data chunk and trivial to scale that bit), filtering of obvious new accounts plus short comments direct to email if needed (theres even a newish function to simplify that bit).
Then run a comparison =^^=

[Maeve]

39% of residents are pessimistic about anything LL does.