Second Life Opens Public Beta

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday April 30, 2003 @02:11PM from the dont-have-a-first-life-yet dept.

thehossman writes "A friend of mine works for Linden Lab, and for the past few months he's been hyping their upcoming product: Second Life. I've just been nodding my head, and ignoring him, but last week he logged in and gave me a mini-tour of the VR world (and some things their alpha-testers have helped create) and I was blown away. Now they've announced their public beta, and if you've got a machine that can handle it, I highly advise you to check it out." This is another of the lifestyle-focused massively multiplayer titles that seem to have very big (venture capital?) budgets backing them - can they succeed?

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credit card number? by kLaNk · 2003-04-30 14:19 · Score: 4, Insightful

They require a credit card number to sign up for an open beta? That seems a bit extreme if you ask me. There are other ways of making sure that your users are unique without requiring everybody to trust you with your credit card number!