The year generally doesn’t start well, January, sick and tired you’ve been hanging on me and then we head into February, which is like a month of bloody Tuesdays. Then finally we hit March and find ourselves heading towards full technicolour at long last.
However Second Life isn’t like that, it’s not cold in Second Life, which is just as well as I’ve just concluded a land deal with a Pixie clad in stockings. Oh ho ho it’s magic, you know, never believe it’s not so. However I do have some hopes for the new year, one is that Linden Lab start bloody well talking to us again, they have been way too quiet.
2011 brought us Mesh, a new prim counting system that has an impact on all users due to additional physics shapes such as convex hull, Land Impact replacing object counts on land in newer viewers and from Linden Lab, officially, via their blog, we heard nothing. The Harpo speaks routine when Linden Lab eventually do announce something doesn’t really cut the mustard.
Linden Lab need to engage with the wider userbase in a variety of areas but the lack of announcements about new scripting functions, new bug fixes, wider publicity about what they’re doing, how many people outside of Second Life circles even know that you can now import Mesh into Second Life? There’s a market there for new people to come to Second Life, using tools such as Blender which have a wider appeal than Second Life, this is why Linden Lab should be leading the conversation, I really hope 2012 is a year when Linden Lab grasp this, silence is not Golden.