My second rezday is in a few months, so I like to think that I’ve seen a good variety of what Second Life has to offer. The TokyoZERO shops, however, may be the most pointless place I have ever visited.
Imagine, if you will, an island covered with a maze of lovely paved paths lined with quaint little shops. You enter a store and click on one of the many boxes that shows an image of a rel life product. Much to your surprise you are offered a link to a web site… where you can buy that real life product. In real life.
Now repeat this experience on another 21 islands.
That’s right. TokyoZERO has a total of 22 of these 3-D shopping malls. I don’t get it. How is this any better than shopping on a web site? Sure, it’s slower, less organized, and you’re constantly being taken away from your immersive Second Life experience to look at a web page, but other than that, it makes perfect sense!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/TokyoZERO%20Shop%2001/112/116/31
October 3, 2008 at 2:54 am |
i noticed the tokyozero think on some other sim once, and i was as baffled as you were. i kept thinking, there’s something i’m not getting here, but in reality, i think maybe it’s tokyozero that’s not getting something.
sometimes the web is more efficient just being the web, without shoving 3d toons around the entrance, know whut a mean, vern?
October 3, 2008 at 2:54 am |
^^^ *thing* not *think* . sorry. long work day
October 3, 2008 at 1:43 pm |
As much as I love SL, it’s the worst place to do online shopping in most cases. In a store that sells items FOR SL, that’s one thing, but why would I want to go through a middle man in order to shop for RL things online?