Plus, now they’re ‘taxing’ decay on items, which totally looks like a desperation play on the part of the company to force funding. It makes absolutely no economic sense in-game — it looks like a forced infusion into the Ped (currency) stream in the house’s favor (as always whenever they tweak the eco-system).

I think I’m done with Entropia.

The downside now though, is that I’m fully aware that Linden has integrated much of MindArk’s economic model since the last time I was in there. That’s troublesome to me on various levels — so it’ll be an interesting thing to see if I even have much of an interest if I see the system being nothing more than another circle-jerk to pursuade a bottom-line – I’m not going to bother.

I even attempted to run it through a couple emulator apps, like 3D Analyzer to see if it’d force. No dice.

This becoming the biggest problem in the virtual areas, I’ve found. Totally disregarding user-base by not providing adequate drivers is getting ridiculous. Google Earth is suffering the same issue, even they too don’t care to admit it.

The reason this bugs me, really, is because the entire push for the metaverse shouldn’t really be intended for the Desktop alone — it’s true functionality is actually ultimate in the mobile arena.

A frustrating morning on my end.