Is Second Life the Paris Hilton of Virtual Worlds?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday October 20, 2006 @07:33AM from the ouch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Second Life appears to be suffering a bit of a backlash from its PR efforts. Matt Mihaly over at The Forge, newly-returned muckracker Peter Ludlow at the Second Life Herald and Tony Walsh at Clickable Culture have all recently taken Linden Labs to task for their non-stop, arguably deceitful, PR machine and frequent downtime. Further, over on Terranova a veritable cornucopia of long-time, experienced virtual world developers, including Raph Koster, Mike Sellers, Randy Farmer, the aforementioned Matt Mihaly, and Daniel James, have piled on, calling into question the fundamental utility of Second Life. Does Second Life have real utility, or is it simply an endless exercise in unsubstantiated public relations? What do Slashdot readers think?"

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Re:Don't you need a first life ... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-20 07:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Oh please, this get a life thing is getting old. It'd be one thing if there was actually something interesting to do offline, but the vast majority of the people going "ha ha get a first life" spend their days drunk in some shithole bar and nights with something that looked female through beer goggles while spreading around painful and terminal diseases.

If that's life, I'd rather be a level 60 paladin.