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People pay money for all kinds of strange and/or intangible things. A rare McDonald's wrapper from the '70s where the logo has a variant hue. The right to have
by Turing_Machine 3y ago
People pay money for all kinds of strange and/or intangible things. A rare McDonald's wrapper from the '70s where the logo has a variant hue. The right to have your name (or your company's name) on a stadium, or a college building. A limited edition pair of sneakers. And so on.
I did own some land in SL at one time. Why? Because building stuff in there was fun, and purchasing your own land was the only way to build permanent stuff and be assured others couldn't (easily) mess with it.
- erulabs 3y agoPresumably the original commenter wouldn’t accept the idea of subjective value or otherwise they wouldn’t have asked that question. Saying “I find value in it” is sufficient only for those who have bought the premise that value isn’t something up for them to decide.
- mavhc 3y agoPeople pay money to see a film at the cinema, yet they can't come back the next day to see it again for free. People pay money for software, and cpu time, and storage space. That's what SL payments get you. People give you money for your time, also intangible.
- cykros 3y agoWorth pointing out here that OpenGrid does exist, and you can absolutely just spin up your own instance, if you want that building experience without paying (separately) for hosting. At this point you could probably run it on the same hardware as your client if you have a halfway modern gaming set up. Of course, then you won't be tied into the Secondlife ecosystem. All depends on your goals there.