The Sprint Center opened a few days ago – on Second Life, a Sims knockoff. The real deal won’t open for another 173 days.
Still, I’m betting on the virtual Sprint Center to lure a pro basketball or hockey franchise before Kansas City does. Maybe the virtual Penguins will leave Pittsburgh after all.
The screen shots are courtesy of the Three O’Clock in the Morning blog. -- Justin Kendall
"A Sims knockoff"? It's obvious you have zero experience with Second Life.
Second Life is the fastest growing virtual world in existence. It has its own economy, it's own culture, and has been accorded the status of a pseudo-nation by virtue of the fact that more than one real world country is establishing a virtual embassy there.
"Second Life is the fastest growing virtual world in existence."
Care to qualify that? A MMO enterprise with 200K active subs, worldwide, is hardly impressive.
Now, if you qualify "virtual world" to leave out things with more overt "game" mechanics, you might get a bit further. One could also argue that SL is the world's fasted growing virtual Ponzi Scheme, but that's neither here nor there.
I don't know a soul who knows anything about Second Life who refers to it as a "Sims knock-off." Clearly this writer does not get it.
Posted at: April 20, 2007 4:31 PM