14 DAY TRIAL // With everyone getting a taste of Second Life, many wonder when will we see a backlash of this MMO/Virtual World. Some are even making bets on when will the SL experience a backlash and they give us reasons for this to happen. This is the case of gaming blog Terra Nova who have a material on why and how will SL fall. They give us thirteen reasons for the backlash to happen:
1) It's all just sex. sex sex sex I tell you
2) It's not just sex, it's prostitution
3) It can be used for hiding / laundering money
4) Terrorist can use it to communicate / plot attacks using it's wonderful simulation abilities
5) Age play or Furries or both: when awww kittens turns to ewwww, give us the wholesome wiikity
6) OMG children could use it and (see 1) sex, omg omg omg abuse, grooming - shut it all down now
7) Hold on a moment, we just noticed - it's not real!
8) Addiction
9) Gambling
10) The numbers are 'lies'
11) Better mouse trap
12) SL is all just brands these days - what's the point, you have to be a company to have a real presence and all the users are just mindless fodder that escape the real word into a place where they just get bombarded with the same old messages, look Fox News just opened up sim. Virtual O'Reilly bringing his 'culture war to the virtual' that's the last straw, like we needed another one
13) And the outside bet - no really, it is just as wonderful as everyone says