Wounded, but not out, Linden Lab have decided to launch another Amazon adventure (that’s Amazon the company, not the wilderness) with an announcement on the blog, which you can read here. This time the blog post contains more information about how the offer works, which is good to see.
This time lucky participants can pick up a hoverboard bonus pack for free until January 29th, the hoverboard bonus pack usually goes for USD$12.95, details of the offer can be found here. In order to claim your free hoverboard you will need to link your Second Life and Amazon accounts, utilising the Amazon game connect feature, which is aimed at free to play MMO’s generally, but as there’s no suitable place for Second Life, which is a Multi User Virtual Environment, it goes in the free to play games section. This is an Amazon issue, not a Linden Lab issue, they’re fitting these offers in the most suitable category.
At least this blog post explains that the offer is only available to customers based in the United States Of America (Boooooo!). Again, this is an Amazon issue, not a Linden Lab issue.
I’m all in favour of these offers and Linden Lab extending Second Life to Amazon, even though I can’t participate myself as I’m not in the USA. I would happily link my Second Life account to my Amazon account if I could, unfortunately I can’t but that doesn’t stop me from seeing the merit in Linden Lab going down this route.
Hopefully Amazon will at some point extend their game connect service to worldwide customers, but if Linden Lab can pick up a few USA based customers via promotions such as this, then that’s a good thing and I hope that Linden Lab continue to engage with ventures such as this.
We’re still awaiting the arrival of Second Life on Steam, which is again a good idea and one I hope is successful. The restrictions on linkage being restricted to USA customers should not apply to Steam, so that hs more potential than the Amazon offer, but the Amazon route is good road to tread too.
If you missed out on the last offer, want to see how this link with Amazon works and you are eligible to participate, then you have until January 29th to try it out.