> Why go to a place to play games when I can just play the games directly. Any new game will require you to set up a user account, download or install somethin

> Why go to a place to play games when I can just play the games directly. Any new game will require you to set up a user account, download or install something, learn the controls, and so forth. A game inside of Second Life would decrease each of these problems if not remove them entirely. That's the potential. Yes, it has been tried multiple times (in addition to the ones you mentioned, I founded a startup called Syntensity in that field), and always failed. I think the problem is gaining initial momentum. Second Life had that, no one else did. But Second Life squandered it.