[Newsbot]

Title: Can people actually 'own' virtual land?
Category: Tech
Posted By: tritium
Date: 2010-05-13 11:21:32

[tritium]

Zed's towns name is called; "loserville."

[Brenda]

Why would ANYONE pay real money for anything on the web that is not delivered to their real house?

[BartSimpson]

On a link off that page is some Japanese guy who married a video game character.

So, on the subject of pathetic, who's seen "Surrogates"?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

No you can't and here's why. Why should a world creator be forced to keep it up and running if the income from the game or whatever it is, isn't continuing to roll and and keep the company solvent?

Maybe people need to start reading their TOS before shelling out real money for a virtual life.

[Monkeyman]

Ugh. Seriously, Second Life is in the news again?

[PublicAnimalNo9]

I wonder how many of these losers understand that you never actually OWN property in real life either.

[coaster_dot]

We actually use second life for school. The department I have classes in owns "land" in the game and we use it for our 3D stuff. Our school also uses it for nursing students and we create scenarios for the nursing students to practice. It's actually pretty cool. However, we use it for practical purposes. I know people who sit on this thing for 14-18 hours a day

I look at it this way. If you are able to own server space, you technically can own virtual land since it's basically the same thing.

[PublicAnimalNo9]

coaster_dot coaster_dot:

We actually use second life for school. The department I have classes in owns "land" in the game and we use it for our 3D stuff. Our school also uses it for nursing students and we create scenarios for the nursing students to practice. It's actually pretty cool. However, we use it for practical purposes. I know people who sit on this thing for 14-18 hours a day

I look at it this way. If you are able to own server space, you technically can own virtual land since it's basically the same thing.

Welll I can't say much about time, I have days I've spent that long in here