This "game" will leave your pockets empty and your mind numb, but youl be addicted all the same 0.o
Its a genuine second life as the name says.
Your choices in second life are almost as limitless as your choices in real life, infact a LOT of people have almost made second life and their real life one and the same by setting up companies in world and living off the proceeds in the real world. Someone has even become a millionaire from buying and renting land !
So you see you can take it as serious or as easy as you want, it all depends what you want out of it.
As an innovation and idea its fantastic and historical, its a technological marvel and possibly even genius. But i still have it, and love it, and hate it, and loathe it, and love it.
My reason for going to second life is for the Role Play sim, Its like having a bunch of different games all in one place, Ive played Star Wars RP (role play), ive played post apocalyptic RPs, fantasy medieval, Gor, ive pretty much tried it all and ive had a lot of fun playing these games but ive also had a LOT of wasted hours.
The thing is about SL (secondlife) is that it has a real economy working within it and as such very little is free, at least not anything worth having.
If you want to play in RP sims you have buy the SL currency which is L$ (Linden Dollars), you purchase this via paypal or a credit card and L$ is actually pretty cheap in real money terms but OMG its deceptive, before you know it you will have spent rediculous amounts of money in RL (real life) funding your habbit for kitting out your avatar in clothing gear appropriate for each RP sim you play in.
Even after you all kitted out theres always newer better weapons and cooler looking clothes and armour coming out all the time and if you want to keep up then you gotta be willing to spend.
I know SL is free to play but if your not willing to buy and spend a LOT of L$ then dont even bother trying it !
Secondlife is made up of Sims, these are areas of land which people can buy and do anything they want with, they could subdivide the land and rent it out as living space, they could turn it into a themed RP sim and host an RPG of their choice or creation, they could even just build a gigantic cock on it if they wanted, the choice really is down to the owner of the sim and as such the variety of things you will find in SL is limitless, if you can think it then chances are some douche bag has built it in SL.
Its really an amazing world to explore, theres just so much to see and do and if exploring is your thing then you will love secondlife, you wont need to spend rediculous amounts of L$ if all you want to do is explore but i would bet my left nut that you end up buying a new skin and clothes and hair and animation overrider (lets you animate your av in much better ways than the standard gimpish animations)
DO NOT confuse SL with an MMORPG because its NOT, its on online WORLD, its NOT a game, the closest thing you will find to games is the before mentioned RP sims and to be honest they are all a bit crap and you find yourself waiting around for people to show up and play or you sit there listening to some idiots who refuse to play a character and just want to talk crap. The RP in SL basicaly dosnt really work because theres just not enough serious RPers, and most of the ones who claim to be serious RPers are the ones that start the most drama..
DRAMA, oh crap you really have to know about this.
Theres 2 things in SL that you will NEVER escape, these are Drama and Lag.
Drama is caused by idiots who come to SL to act tough and talk crap probably because they are socialy retarded in RL and SL is the only place they can get listened too or at least be idiots without being punched repeatedly until unconcious.
Lag is part and parcel of SL, you will never totaly escape it and unless your PC set up with pretty freaking cool, like im talking about high end PCs then your gonna get bogged down in lag and crashes a lot.
Ive been suckered into SL and ive gotten addicted to it, ive wasted way too much money on the damn thing and wasted way too much time i could have spent doing numerous more important things.
I hate the damn thing but at the same time i cant give it up.
Its got a lot of bad points to it and lot of bad points, its life lived through a computer.
I would urge anyone reading this to forget you heard about SL and just walk away, go buy new games for whatever console you own, in the long run its much much cheaper and much less wasted time will come of it.
Theres a saying which goes "the internet brings you closer to the people farthest away, and further from the people closest to you"
This saying is very very true especialy when concerning SL.
Stick to real life, put your energy into things that matter.
Ok now im off to play in SL...... :-(