Second Life’s Update Causes Concern
Second Life’s grid problems from last week’s system wide update bled into the weekend, leaving users unable to navigate the virtual world. The question, though, is how badly the glitches and errors are affecting the economy, and whether residents’ concerns are justified. The update has not caused major repercussions in the Second Life economy. The population count has continued to rise, now just shy of the 1.8 million mark. In addition, the amount of real-life dollars changing hands in Second Life in the form of the in-world currency, the Linden dollar, is near record highs. Over the last 24 hours, nearly $655,000 has swapped between users and businesses in the virtual world.
Linden Lab released a new software version of Second Life on Wednesday, disabling the system for more than five hours during the change. Once residents downloaded the new update, they found themselves with a number of virtual headaches. Typically, the system wide updates are meant to fix bugs and make essential changes to the Second Life program that will make things run smoother for users. However, Wednesday’s upgrade has done nothing to aid performance of the system and has instead added to residents’ frustrations. Following Linden Lab’s scheduled update, some visitors were denied the ability to log in, as the grid dealt with a bottleneck of traffic
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