Alberik Rotaru commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
I think LL may be in for a rude shock. I play a lot of games. I use Steam a lot. The only 'game' (in fact the only program of any kind) where I have any graphics or stability issues is Second Life....
View ArticleGwyneth Llewelyn commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
This is a very interesting announcement; and yes, I agree it's "bigger than mesh", because, for once, we're seeing strategy (kudos to Rod, he seems to know what he's doing).So, first, LL promises to...
View ArticleKeystone Bouchard commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
VERY exciting.. but SL on Steam isn't the big deal here, imho. The sweet spot would be breaking out access to instances of individual sims on Steam, and let sim owners set a price for accessing those...
View ArticleJoker commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics...
all that graphic complexity costs time and money to develop during production... and there are plenty of 3d engines that do all those tricks with less overhead than SL, PLUS to invest all that time and...
View ArticleAeonix Aeon commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
I'd like to note a few things in response to this post, and maybe address the hype.First:Second Life on Steam isn't what its cracked up to be. 40 million potential customers does not equal 40 million...
View ArticleNica Pennell commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Oh, man. For years I considered SL's technological evolution hopelessly stagnant, and now all of a sudden they're checking off some of the top items on my wishlist. Could user-defined avatar skeletons...
View ArticleConnie Arida commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Good to see some movement on the graphics rendering front. Some movement on the avatar mesh deficiencies would be welcome too. Of course SL will NEVER be able to compete with Games using highly...
View ArticleKadah Coba commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
About the only effect LL's viewer getting on to Steam is likely to have is increasing exposure slightly and get some new sign up. Steam isn't some magical platform that instantly gives you everything...
View ArticleLittle Lost Linden commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
"It's not usually a good idea to try and run a zebra in the Kentucky Derby. Just my two cents."I would like to see this kind of a race. To quote President Frankenstein from Deathrace 2000, I think a...
View ArticleRin Tae commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics...
Okay .. tis is big news .. first mesh, then the performence announcements and now materials as well. Finally it seems like LL is really doing something to improve and there might even be signs that...
View ArticleDizzy Banjo commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
I guess this is a logical step for Linden. If Valve open it up to all kinds of software, they may as well put SL on there too. However I agree with many posts here that as a product ( game or otherwise...
View ArticleArcadia Codesmith commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
Is Steam hardcore? I have it for the Civ series and Magic: The Gathering, neither of which is dependent on state-of-the-art graphics. Thumbing through their catalogue, I see a wide variety of different...
View ArticleBaal commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics in...
I actually create viable RP worlds in SL. And I realize that the makers of SL ignore all I do. Pretty graphics maketh not a game. SL is running to catch the bus that left years ago. If they continue to...
View ArticleIyoba commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics...
This is NOT the way I wanted to start my morning. This news brings back memories of being mesh-blind all winter long. LL did fix the problem in early January, but I had given up after several weeks of...
View ArticleBaal commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics in...
LL have no understanding of their strengths. the guy running the show thinks SL is the sims. He has no idea at all about real crazy interactions and users that exist in SL. How disconnected can the...
View Articlecube republic commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Baal there's loads, and I can't be bothered to compile a list. Personally I think this is good.
View Articlemelponeme_k commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
This is exciting news.However I have a feeling we are going to be inundated with Steam users looking for some 500 shades of Grey.
View Articlemelponeme_k commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
@HamletI also have an alienware laptop. Dell it seems is notorious for dropping graphics driver support for their older hardware (wish I knew before I purchased).I now download drivers straight from...
View ArticleKeystone Bouchard commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
A lot of gamers aren't satisfied with the same old fantasy, shoot'em up and side-scroller games being remade and remade over and over. They're pining for something new, and the exponential growth of...
View ArticleNexus Burbclave commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Excellent! I hear Steam players like their hats. Time to open a hat shop in-world. :)On a serious note this seems like a good move both for SL and potentially for Valve. And LL doesn't necessarily have...
View ArticleMichelle Leckrone commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
I was excited to hear about sl going on to steam is not just going to be a game place any more it's going to be for all kinds of software on steam so very good idea to do that LL Also there has been...
View ArticleTabzy Ragu commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
I'm quite excited about this.Like many of you have commented, 40million users doesn't mean SL can handle it, but it does mean they have a potential 40million users.Another thing people often get...
View Articlefoneco zuzu commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
All this just makes me think that LL needs so hard to cut off expenses that they will tell all kind of shi**** and in the end what one will get is 20 sims staked on a cpu! Hope im really wrong and...
View Articlefoneco zuzu commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
http://iliveisl.com/over-3000-sl-private-sims-gone-in-last-2-years/ Check and read it well!
View ArticleTabzy Ragu commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
@foneco, Yes over the last few years there has been a steady decline in the amount of "Private Regions" on the grid, this is primarily due to the current state of the economy as well as the costs...
View ArticleArchangel Mortenwold commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
Given the anticlmactic settling in of mesh following its release, I doubt this Steam scheme will make a significant impact on the grid. Why won't it? Part of it has to do with everything mentioned in...
View Articlefoneco zuzu commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
All i see is a company that could lead:http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2012/08/opensim-passes-200-grid-milestone/ All i see is a company that could lead a universe of grids and its refusing to do so!...
View ArticleHamlet Au commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Foneco, to state the question frankly, why should Linden Lab spend any time leading a universe of OpenSim grids that only have about 17,000 active users, and hasn't provably grown in the last few years?
View ArticleMetacam Oh commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Tabzy you are wrong, each sim doesn't get its own core.
View ArticleSalazar Jack commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Re: My earlier question about OnLive… just saw this posted on Twitter (maybe the Lab can acquire some patents?):...
View Articleelizabeth (16) commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
if we can use our steam wallet in the same way we can use paypal to move money into and out of l$ then i think will be lots of steam people make sl accounts to do that. even if they dont actual play sl...
View ArticleIggy commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics in...
@Hamlet, good point about OpenSim. I am happy with our small user base, but I'd like a virtual currency to use across grids. I think the better question might be "why doesn't Linden Lab leverage our...
View ArticleVictor1st Mornington commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
Second Life will be part of the new Steam 5 overhaul.Valve Softwares Steam digital download service right now at the current moment in time is all games. Ranging from the "twitchy" first person...
View ArticleYak Wise commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Sure hope I don't have to shoot people or dragons or so...
View ArticleJames Corbett commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Didn't I read somewhere that Valve are big fans of the Oculus Rift VR headset? Doesn't this news mean the likelihood that SL will therefore be optimised for the Rift at some stage in the not too...
View ArticleGwyneth Llewelyn commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
You read well, @James! Hmm. Interesting connection.
View ArticleGwyneth Llewelyn commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
And +1 to @Victor1st. My thoughts exactly :) It's an amazing marketing scheme, and that's a novelty, from The Company That Does No Marketing.
View ArticleArchangel Mortenwold commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with...
I seriously doubt Valve will have any appreciable impact on SL's user base. Mesh was supposed to revolutionize things but it hasn't. Similarly, opening up SLers to Steam users and vice versa won't have...
View ArticlePussycat Catnap commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
"40 million gamers using steam. About 40% of them are in the "main age" range of 24 or below. The 25 to 40 range makes up about 25%...and in that range you have publishers of gaming magazines, software...
View ArticleWayfinder commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
One thought in this:If there's anyone that can totally mess up the operation of Steam... it will be Linden Lab.
View ArticleAprilleshepherd commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Do you remember rumors of Linden Labs being bought by Microsoft so they could make SL the Home for Xbox Gamers (similar to how Sony PS has Sony Home)? Well, Linden has done it without selling out to...
View ArticleIohannes commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Was already able to use mesh with texturing in Opensim already. XML worked best because you could load the model textures already as if loading an object.
View ArticleIohannes commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
As for land, I know of an Opensim that you can get a full region with 937 prims for around $3.00 a month. That anyone's paying $10,000 for a year is ridiculous. Even the most expensive Opensim grid...
View ArticleDavid commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics...
@Hamlet -"We were told the very same thing about mesh, and that mesh would greatly improve performance... and now I can hardly run SL on my Alienware."I'm able to run SL on Ultra with shadows on on a 2...
View ArticleDavid commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics...
@Iohannes - I agree, land prices are outrageous. SL should take note of what Apple has done.Treat SL as the platform and charge cheap prices, but make it up by taking a 30% cut out of...
View ArticleAaron commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics...
I use a rather new laptop (2011), and even low graphics settings is very laggy after the start of SL mesh. I'm not sure if my computer can handle any more.
View ArticleLOL commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved Graphics in...
Steam has a LARGE userbase of chrildren under the age of 16.... what wil they do on Second Sex Life?
View ArticleRika Tachikawa commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam with Improved...
Well i play a lot of games on steam and as a steam gamer i am already on SL.. i would love to see graphics upgrades to SL though... and i would love to see them fix the avatars in SL...
View Articlemichael SL British Airways CEO commented on 'Second Life Coming Soon to Steam...
Im a veteran from 2007, having been in combat sims mostly, but got into leasing sims in 2009.I left in january 2013, because, The grid system, is now so outdated, it wont let passenger aircraft loaded...
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