The published, key metrics for Second Life for the month of September are now available as both an Open Document Spreadsheet and in Excel format.
Your key takeaways this month are an increasing fall in total premium accounts, a fall in total user hours, zero mainland (Linden owned estate) growth (but a 7% increase in privately owned estates), and a reduction in economic activity.
At GDC 2024, Convai showed off a new AI NPC demo made with Unity. They also announced new features and partnerships with game developers.
Online life sim Second Life is removing gacha mechanics later this month, citing a "changing regulatory climate" as its reason for banning the surprise mechanics
Do that with Marvel Avengers and every other Gacha game and the wold would be great.
So, what games are you not allowed to stream on Twitch?
As they should be. There's no need for these kinds of games. It's just prurient nonsense.
I wonder if this means that Second Life is over the hill? I've tried it and it was fun for a little while, but in order to have any real fun you have to get into a clique of some sort. Mostly it's a mass of pervs looking for an online "encounter", or someone's small army of alts camping to farm free money from the economy so they can't gift the money back to the main account.