Don't Go Into The Corn Field

Via GameSetWatch, Clickable Culture's look at the Second Life version of purgatory - The Corn Field. A player explores an off-grid prison that misbehaving avatars are sent too for infractions. From the article: "Yaffle tested the limits of the prison, finding that communication to Second Life's 'Main Grid' was cut off. He even came up with a scheme to crash the server The Corn Field was running on in order to be teleported to the nearest safe simulator by default, but creating objects in The Corn Field appears to be impossible. Having exhausted his options, Yaffle merely waited around to see if anyone else would show up. A Linden Lab employee did stop by, but was incommunicado. 'If I was them, I would have been watching me and laughing,' Yaffle told me. 'I know I was laughing even though it was a punishment.'"

Comments

Re:wtf?

[Wisgary]

Agreed.

Methusela breaks a Code

[Schickie]

I have changed my mind. I will retain Games News in my Preferences and read religiously. Furthermore, I will sally forth and make some virtual money. (Well, ok, the thought crossed my mind, vaguely).

For any SlashDot readers sufficiently dis-connected from non-reality (hey! anything is possible!) to have been thoroughly confused by the Cornfield Post (US: greater than 32 and a half yrs, Euwope: above twenty-something) I offer the links below. Suggest you read them in reverse order.

BTW, I hesitated, as I briefly virtualized about dreamy money, about passing on this potentially valuable info. Would I be shooting myself in my virtual foot? "Naw", was my next thought, natural political inclinations being what they are amongst most SlashDot readers, none would touch a *Money* article with a 10 meter sword. "But", further I thought (the third? fourth?), even dyed-in-the-acrylic Marxists will reach for the Golden Torq given the chance. (History has proven this immutably and repeatedly). Therefore I defeats myself (thinks Gollum). "Ahh, however..." then lastly crossed my mind-such as it is (...a pre-emptive disclaimer strike), they be socialists and I be capitalist and more customers (aka "marks") are welcome, nay, essential, and I will invariably win. So, before my post turns Joycian, here are the links:

Yield of Dreams (re IGE.com)...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_a rchive/2005/11/28/8361929/index.htm

From Megs to Riches (re Avatar Asset Trading)...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_a rchive/2005/11/28/8361953/index.htm

Meet the next Disney (re Chinese Company "Shanda" - includes the death of Zhu Caoyuan)...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_a rchive/2005/11/28/8361976/index.htm

The Virtual Rockefeller (re Anshe Chung & Second Life - the subject, sort of, of the parent post)...
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_a rchive/2005/11/28/8361976/index.htm

Re:Methusela breaks a Code

[Schickie]

OhMyGod. Igotanofftopic. My mom keeps telling me not to use long words. I don't know if I can go on...

((Was there no-one, absolutely no-one out there who appreciated links to articles about MMO RPG's??))

***jeez*** and this one will get a troll.