second life?

[Casey VII]

Why does everyone who plays this game have a shitty/weird looking avatar

literally no objects/textures in this game have an appealing or impressive look, is it just me who thinks this?

I almost can't put it into words, everything just looks incredibly cheap or corny. Like a 1990's CGI commercial.

Is it a limitation of the engine or something? Or just a reflection of the type of people who play? Probably the latter.

[Cecily]

Originally Posted by Casey VII [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Why does everyone who plays this game have a shitty/weird looking avatar

literally no objects/textures in this game have an appealing or impressive look, is it just me who thinks this?

I almost can't put it into words, everything just looks incredibly cheap or corny. Like a 1990's CGI commercial.

Is it a limitation of the engine or something? Or just a reflection of the type of people who play? Probably the latter.

As far as I understand it, the game is run off of user created content. Everything from avatars to clothing, buildings, land, etc is created by players and able to be sold for in game currency which is bought with and can be converted back to real money, with the devs taking a cut in the exchange. It's a beautiful scam. Release a sandbox game with no content and make the players develop it for you and charge them for the privilege. Does have the side effect of a lot of it looking like shit.

[Casey VII]

Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As far as I understand it, the game is run off of user created content. Everything from avatars to clothing, buildings, land, etc is created by players and able to be sold for in game currency which is bought with and can be converted back to real money, with the devs taking a cut in the exchange. It's a beautiful scam. Release a sandbox game with no content and make the players develop it for you and charge them for the privilege. Does have the side effect of a lot of it looking like shit.

I did a few minutes of reading on that particular issue and some people were saying the creation engine itself is extremely bad, and that's another reason everything looks like shit. Can you not use your own software to develop models/textures? That sounds fucking awful.

[Colgate]

this ain't your livejournal dawg

no1 cares about how you're discovering things on the internet from a decade ago

[lite]

Originally Posted by Colgate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

this ain't your livejournal dawg

no1 cares about how you're discovering things on the internet from a decade ago

lax nerd, everyone enjoying the thread and u so bitter.

[Lionsfan616]

W..T.....F am I watching here. I am actually shocked something like this not only exists but that people take it so seriously. Now I cant stop watching these videos and reading youtube comments.

[Ezalor]

are you chinese? you sound chinese

[iruinedyourday]

They used to try to sell the game as a player made craft fair. Like people could make content and sell it at thier own shops. But the content started off so crappy and free to play, it just attracted this exponential herd of creeps, lonely housewives and sexually frustrated degenerates.

We walk a fine line here my friends.

[Jimjam]

Originally Posted by iruinedyourday [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

They used to try to sell the game as a player made craft fair. Like people could make content and sell it at thier own shops. But the content started off so crappy and free to play, it just attracted this exponential herd of creeps, lonely housewives and sexually frustrated degenerates.

We walk a fine line here my friends.

Literally everyone who I know that plays second life (as in people I've met IRL) is a goth and/or single mom (generally both).

[Cecily]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7KwAD8D3Sg

God this these video are so good.