this is a clear indication of where home is going. right from the begginning i knew it was a terrible idea. i dont want to open up a sims game just to go to a game.

Home isn't second life.

Second Life is too confusing.

I hope Home is a simple to use thing.

In other news. Third Life is bleeding users and is in danger of shutting down.

Said one Second Life resident, "It seems silly and depressing to me that players in Second Life would want to waste all their time on the computer in an imaginary world called Third Life when they have a real second life in the outside world."

Second life was/is about wasting your life.

the geek gods have spoken and they're saying:

"we need a new Home"

the biggest one was when they removed the gambling and money transfer, the second was the banks in the game pulling out. Otherwise it would still be going strong.

Obama was the smart one not to advertise in Second Life, while McCain was the dumba** who thought it would be smart to advertise in Second Life.

Vote OBAMA!

It was sooo obvious that this story was posted as the facade to an attack on HOME.
I'm not sure why some people seem surprised by that.

I think people misunderstand the concept behind home...
Its like Live but with individually created avatars where communities of people can get together. Sony wanted to create a truly live community where people could share ideas without actually having to travel to different sources to gain access to what is happening they give u live streaming content. You no longer have to download a movie clip to watch it you just watch the content stream in HD. Everything new constantly updating.
I personally believe home will open an entirely new level to clan and tournament based interactivity, people will be able to have clan conferences at their leaders pad and plan strategies as teams and parties like never before. My clan is already talking about how this could strengthen our team. Being able to get all our members into one place in time will be great.
Home is for the hardcore and mainstream, its not like sony is forcing this on people everyone has the choice of using home. I dont have to be on it all the time, but when we use home we plan on taking every advantage sony is giving us with this new world.

BeetleJuice

Why exactly would they want to "haemorrhage the problem" of "bleeding users." A haemorrhage is just a massive bleed.

And about the relevance of this to Home....home actually has a focus and a common underlying theme of gaming and most its users will be gamers. It is much more likely to retain users over a longer period of time, although the uses of home may vary over time.

To everyone who invested REAL money in VIRUTAL land....you deserve to have been swindled in something so unpredictable and changing as an online GAME (Yes it was a game, it was not LIFE).

Everybody knows that the internet is only a breeding ground for the next Flavor of the Week. Remember Hamsterdance? Yeah, that idiotic thing that was one of the web's top visited sites? Not anymore, you know why? Because something more asinine came along. Second Life only got popular because of media coverage.

If you want your 15 minutes of success, make something stupid and put it on the internet, just remember to cash out the day after the media firestorm, because once the media is gone, so are you and your website.

£40 million on a fad that is already dead.

Well, I can say I'm a HOME beta tester, and without giving anything away, it's NOTHING like Second Life. The people that wanna hate on it (which I find confusing as they haven't even used it making them seem really stupid) can hate on it, their loss no one will miss them. They seem to be the sort of people who don't like change and just want to just play the same way forever with no innovations.

One thing I've noticed that I think I can say is that there are tons of people using home in very cool and funny ways already and the social element is VERY surprising to me as I've made quite a few friends.

There's nothing better than a two groups talking trash in the home square just to get into two teams and jump immediately into Warhawk, settle the dispute in the skies, then to immediately return to Home square after the match just to gloat lol

Did that two nights ago, good times......especially since it was my team that kicked ass :)

Listen,

I play SL and make money selling crap there (not literally)

Anyways, this was the bubble everyone knew would burst. There are two types of people in SL (corporate or non corporate)

People who are trying it out, or people that have found their Niche and stay around. It is simple as that.

I think all of the users who flocked in just to make money during the boom may either make friends or get dissapointed and leave.

When you have 10,000 sign ups a day, how many are really going to stick around? Probably around 1000 of those.

I know what this article is saying, but at the same time SL's economy mirrors our own. Who can afford virtual crap when they need to pay for real food, etc... lol

Anyways as a person who loves to create and design things (and script them), SL is still the best world out there to do this for me (which is why I stick around)

Most people knew that the game would plateau and then slide due to the amount of hype the game got earlier...so honestly this was very predictable. I don't see this game dying soon, as long as Lindens are smart and Grow/Shrink to the actual demand for the game.

Second Life is crap anyways...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau