Social networks? As in match.com? Having tried it before, I must say that its a very interesting place ;)

Thanks for sharing your views. I’m not so sure about the biased and anti tech viewpoints comment, To be fair, there are some articles that I enjoyed reading, for example, the report on innovation nation at the Singapore Discovery Center. But I do think that there are some issues that can be improved.

How do you like secondlife so far? I’ll try to look for you too, my username is rinaz bijoux, would be wonderful to see you inworld!

Hi Chu wen,

Welcome to secondlife :) Usually its the graphics software, you need to update to the latest driver, if you’re using nvidia, you can click on the link here and you need to update your directx too, and you can download it here

Its usually when this two are resolved, than you will be able to run secondlife :) Let me know if you need more help, or the forums are a much faster way for seeking help when you need it.

My lappie isn’t really powerful, is that the cause?

oh no, sound like techie helpline here

Anyway, i will try to look for you and the Singapore gang in SL. I just joined a couple of months ago and am still figuring my way around. My avatar is Josebo Onlyone but i shld be changing to another one soon cos this name is too tongue in cheek.

To reiterate the following comment in the comment above, I am not as concerned about my being interviewed as to what I feel that the article was misleading.

To the typical person on the street, the title gives an impression that there are hardly any singaporean secondlifer. I am disenchanted that it focuses on mmorpg gamers whom do not have the adequate experience. It is understandable that these are their personal reasons as to why they do not play secondlife - but I feel that the article was unbalanced as it focuses only as to why it was unpopular. It would be good to add to the article its pros too.

Perhaps it did. The same issue interviewed vantan, a secondlife player. HOwever, it was a small article, and was easily looked over. In fact, if she did not post that article up in her blog, it would be missed completely.

Whether an editor allows a person to write for an article or not, is up to their disgretion. But it would have been civil to have a reply back to those with genuine concerns.

Why not do an actual comparison of different genres of games and worlds for the article rather than the commentary “what type of gamer are you”. With a clearer explanation of each types, it would be less ambiguous.

Or how about comparing secondlife with the different types of 3D worlds? There are many types of 3D worlds out there such as There.com, worlds.com. toontown.com, IMVU.com, activeworlds.com, moove.com among others.

To be clear, I do not have a cult mentality for secondlife. As much as I enjoy secondlife as an escapism world where I can be creative, secondlife isnt perfect.

There is frequent updates where you need to reload about 30meg of software at a time. And there are a number of downtimes. Nowadays it is difficult for newcomers to buy land and the entire world can appear very commercialised nowadays. But I enjoy it for the people that I meet as well as the impressive creations by builders and its graphics.

I apologize should you find my tone hostile, however, I stand by my thoughts and beliefs. I understand that much time and effort has been put in writing the article. But outside the box, I think that it can be improved.

As I accept your critsism of me, I hope that you too be able to accept my views.

It sounds like you are unhappy with a story that appears in a medium that “Most people dont read newspapers anymore anyways”.
Your reasons appear to be:
1) The story didn’t worship SL.
2) It didn’t feature you.
3) You didn’t get to write a story about SL in a medium that nobody reads anyway.

If you were not so angry, you would had noticed the article put SL and the SL community in very positive light.
While it is undoubtedly true SL is not as popular compared to WOW or Everquest, it made the distinction between “games” like Warcraft and “worlds” like SL.

It also tried to explain why this is so, the different appeal of the two genres, and why people might be drawn to one and not the other.

Sadly, from your post, I understand why the editor won’t let you write.
Lets say that you wrote the story. Are you likely to say anything other than how good and great SL is, and ignore how underappreciated this is among most people?
Since there are already plenty of articles praising SL, do we really need another one, and how will your article be different from those anyway?

The survey with gamers for example doesnt give it credibility for a 3D community that does not have the same genre. And the people that was interviewed for the article isnt appropriate to have their say because of their lack of experience in Secondlife.

Chu Wen : I think you’d like it, come on and join sl, its free now anyways :)

Miza : yeahh … haha, that character is a very very famous (and also quite notorious) for since sl started. I dont think I’d be rich from sl though, I’m too darned unmotivated to sell things in there :P

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When you make that kind of money in SL, don’t forget me. Hehe.