On Saturday 14 October 2006 15:57, Robert Jonsson wrote: > Oh, not everyday you find an MMO that works in linux. > Trying it out. Doesn't work too well as of yet, but atleast it > works ;) The ogg support sounds very cool indeed...when I get > audio working...hrm I was interested in Second Life when they announced the Linux client back in 2003 (it took almost 3 years for them to actually release the alpha) and I really wanted to support them, but nowadays it just looks like "Alphaworld with real money" to me. I think the streaming concert idea is neat, and people are always going to try to buy and sell in-game features, but just as I can't compete with WoW players who sit there 18 hours a day leveling up, I can't compete with people who can afford to just buy themselves everything in SL. The other thing is, to snip a quote from Carlo's original post: > > We have the potential here to: Be grande artists, retain > > creative control, earn a wealthy living, AND preserve and > > further the goals of a free society. Warm invitations to > > participate, and I feel this is just one more useful tool. In no way is SL or any other current MMO system a "free society". Just like a shopping mall or Wal-Mart or an IRC server, you're in the society at the owners' pleasure, and unless something happens to turn it into a Neal Stephenson-esque publicly held shared reality, that's not going to change. Rob
