People making ALOT in second life

Shit, I have seen some weird bussiness out there, but this people in second life have the 1st place.

There's this guy who has a real state company inside that world, and makes 150k$ a year!h:

It may not sound that great, but think that the guy makes that without help, inside his house and WITH NON EXISTANT LANDS...

There's also a girl that makes clothes, and a guy who makes a lot modeling custom objects for the game.

Come to think of it, I almost joined the damn thing (SL) at the very beggining. I would own the place if I didOH:


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is that the same game where some Danish guy bought an island for $100k?

 

Dunno, but linden labs (the company behind SL) charge you $1,250 for each island, and almost 200$ per month.

Honestly, is pretty cheap...

 

Second life, huh. I didnt even know what it was until today. It looks like an Online version of the Sims to me.

What do you do? Spend REAL money to buy land and crap? LAME

It would be cool if you could actually make a business and sell things, I guess.

Dont get me wrong, if I could make a profit on the game, I would.

 

I've only played one Sims game before (SimCity 2000 for Windows 95).

Are these online games that you can live and interact in a simulated "online world" and play between users from around the real world?

 

Second life is built mostly from the players. Progamers mostly play this to screw around on code.
It has more of a cult following then anything else to be hounest, Second life has been around for sometime now, recently has been looked it more closely.

As for the prices ya some of the things are steep but if your looking for a very user friendly community Second life is for you

 

No doubt, but if they are going to pay ME for THAT, no prob:lol:

I had the idea of making money with something like this when I saw that Habbo Hotel back in 2002 (a very simplistic online community, compared to SL) and how the kids there were paying real money for furniture that had no useful actions (you could SIT on them, great....) but on the other hand the value were mere cents, and no way you could make REAL money with the habbo credits.

The point is, when I first saw SL I thought they were going too far with the cyber-economy and that nobody would be that stupid as to pay 200 bucks for a parcel.

I was wrong.....

 

Dunno, never went online on that thing.

After all, is like any MMO community but without the game:evil:

Is like going into WoW just for the lovely comments from the n00bs.

"n33d g0ld plz!":-(

 

You can do anything in the game, you build your world, and everything around it.
There was someone who made a boxing ring and had fights going on, others have made art in the middle of there virtual desert, and selling them to other Second Life users.
While another person had FPS type things going on.
Now there are also banking on cyber sex shop, no im not kidding you

 

Yeah I know, there's even an escort rating system you kno?

You can make money modeling things in 3Dstudio (house, clothes, etc...) and then selling the shit to other people inside the game.

 

I'd never heard of Second Life, but I had noticed there's lots of auctions on eBay for items in other online games like Diablo or whatever. In my opinion, this kind of thing is a perfect example of how the capitalist mindset they're instilling more and more deeply into every generation is becoming dangerously unstable.

And you guys who say that it's lame and ridiculous that people would spend real money for this stuff, but then turn around in your very next sentence and say that you would gladly join in if you could make a dime on it are a hige part of the problem. Why not spend your time building up your fellow man's level of consciousness rather than keeping him ignorant so that you can profit from his foolishness? Our society will perish if the profit-at-any-cost mindset doesn't change soon.


...word is bondage...

 

The problem is that a society were some people are willing to play fair and other are free to do that kind of capitalist ventures just doesn't work.

Is like supporting the jews during the nazi germany, they would send you to the camps too if you did (well this is not that good of an example, but is the best I can do without getting into advanced economics)

What we need are laws to prohibit this kind of rampant speculation, from these minor virtual ventures to the big-ass scams like the one of Enron or today's increasing oil prices.

 

You can't have wars in that game as far as I know. You do, however, have to spend REAL money to get anything in that game. The problem is finding a bank that will not laugh at you when you want to take that money out and spend in the real world...

 

There has been a war betwen people in the game. Some you have to agree on blah blah blah.
Ive yet to buy anything for this game, nor will I ever, ive made things for it, thats about it, but this isnt anything new at all, people buying items off ebay for Diablo II, WoW, and countless other MMORPGS out there.
Second Life is going through the stage every other MMO goes through.

 

I know banks and believe me, they dont give a damn about where you got the money, they only care if you got bussiness with them.

You could have a company named "super intelligent dildos" and they would still treat you like the king of france if your account is big enough.

 

Yeah but on a massive scale: on other MMOs you are not supposed to do that, that why people go to ebay.

In SL you can do all that inside the system, using real money and everything.

 

Yes Shadow OTHER MMO's, Second Life you make the world, ect. No one forces you to buy anything they make in the game at all.

Alot of the transactions done on Second Life is done via L$


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Yes, that's a very bad example. In fact, it makes no sense at all. There's no reason why people who do the right thing will get run over by greedy capitalists. That's simply not true. The reason you assume it is because you assume that greed and opportunism are inherently the more powerful positions and you assume that because it's the line you've been fed from every quarter of our society. But it's false. There is great power in righteousness that the selfish can't understand. There's also great power in numbers and if more people would just take a goddamned stand against these things that they don't truly believe in but simply think they have to accept, more and more people would begin to think come around and before you know it the neo-capitalists would be living in caves trying to sell each other sticks and berries.

We don't need more laws, that's the last thing we need. Laws can't make people do the right thing. What we need is more people willing to take a moral stand.

If you don't believe me, go ahead and make your argument using "advanced economics" and we'll see how that goes.


...word is bondage...

 

I whole-heartedly agree that Laws won't change anything. In order to make a full change into something that is more life-sustaining for our current generation and future generation requires a change in, basically, ideology.