Second Life Reviews 142

This used to be an amazing platform but the past few years the trend for this overweight but not humanly realistic body being forced on everyone if you want access to all the newest clothes is tiresome. It's unrealistic and strange. The body Reborn is a downgrade from Legacy or Lara x. It's a low poly, strange feet and overall shaped body you can't escape. I'm from Japan so I expect my cultures to be reflected in the body shape most of our country has but instead it's forced onto this specific body. It's culturally insulting because japanese clothing, some historically based is forced to this and it isn't realistic. It's an AI born look from the west. It's racist and cultural appropriation of you're asian or even a normal woman anywhere. The asian culture is sexualized and disgustingly transformed by this. The creators seem racist and insensitive to asians overall. I'd recommend against this platform. You can make more money creating and SL assets for indie game developers than on here, especially with this trend that isn't ending. There is also no way to actually report or truly block bad behavour. People can make endless accounts and stalk you, get your ip through media links. There's no protection from abuse.

I hate this game and had them erase my account

Hard to use, rude people.

I have played for years and most of my friends stop playing but why? I can tell you why they commit fraud to steal your money, practice unfair treatment to customers, permit or encourage discrimination against people, take little action against fraud, do nothing about computer crimes and the list goes on. Bloodlines also is a big part of it to and their actions are criminal and they get away with it ..much like Facebook and brought before Congress this company should also be sanctioned due to crime.

If I could give it NEGATIVE Stars I would. DO NOT PUT YOUR MONEY IN EXCANGE FOR THEIR CURRENCY, IF YOU ARE EXPECTING MONEY BACK. They take a chunk out of the money you request (tax you) then you got credit. they give you an error if you try to send it to your PayPal or Bank Account. I submitted a ticket but no response. So I bought back Lindens (their currency Not for the same price I sold it either) and That worked without any error... THEY ARE CROOKS!!!

The game itself is good and offers possibilities for interesting interactions. However, it is not at all intuitive or user friendly, and you can spend hours just trying to get some things to work (until there is an update, when it is all disrupted again).

I have been an active member since 2008 and I am still discovering the wonders of this amazing virtual world, where the only limits are those bounded by your imagination! Those giving poor reviews are probably antisocial types, and Second Life is a very sociable virtual world. Second Life is not a game, it's a persistent virtual world with thousands of games, role play genres, clubs and bars.

Even pressing refresh a few times should be enough to tell you that the Marketplace listing enhancement function provides only a limited number of promotional slots, and that once they're filled, paying for one of the slots will do nothing for you. That's why you see the same listings pop up again and again out of thousands of possible listings.

That this is true is easy for any merchant to prove by:

1) making 2 identical listings, 1 with maximum listing enhancements, and 1 with none
2) waiting until the end of the listing enhancement period
3) checking the view rates for the 2 listings to see if there is any statistically significant difference.

Selling a limitless amount of a limited service is actually a crime, and Linden Lab has probably stolen no less than a million dollars from merchants over the last 10 years.

This is not a bug, a data entry problem, or a bad integration test between 2 pieces of good code.
This is a basic feature built into the website by Brooke Linden, who we now know was a person with zero integrity.

If you politely point any of this out to Linden Lab, your reward for trying to help them fix their system is that they will invent excuses to close your Marketplace store so you can't collect any incriminating data, and they will ban you from the forum to deter you from sharing any data you already have.

How do I know?

It happened to me.

Second Life resident Josh Susanto

Stay away from this manchild insane asylum run platform. I'll give you examples why.

1. This company's own leadership was recently caught roleplaying with other adults; ageplay or pedophilia. The only reason they care now is because they were caught with their pants down doing it. SL has been known to ERP ageplay and its a complete cesspool.

2. The men-children (no I'm talking about everyone not just men) Who power trip with a credit card for buying over priced things or locations like if you were on a private server. They will get triggered and ban you simply for saying the smallest things. We're talking a debate at most or voicing an opinion.

3. The people pretend they're not losers and act high and mighty while talking down to people constantly. They're quiet literally insane with how they treat one another. I've seen bad stuff before in games but this goes beyond the pale with how they act towards each other. Again LL doesn't care.

4. The fees for their "currency" is beyond ridiculous. Currently LL is losing people due to an outdated platform which they never tried renovating or remodeling it too late and now no one wants to buy linden due to #1 example and other things. So in its place they're jacking up fees/costs/etc of it.

5. It runs terribly, they've been trying to stay up to date in support of new mesh and everything else. However it was never designed for it & every "creator" imports heavy poly. Now imagine a game trying to render all of this in streaming wise, in tight close space worlds. Yeah you're lagging hard. It won't ever be fixed and trying to make it optimized on your own end is next to impossible.

Basically the community is awful and the management is awful. Play VRchat or something else thats free.

I have been a member of second life for just over 17 years, and even after all this time i have still not seen it all. Second life is perfect place to get away from real life for a few hours, there's so much to learn see and do. Every time i log on there is some thing new for me to do.

It is an amazing 3D world where the only limit is your imagination. There are fantastic music events, whatever your taste and other social events of all kinds. The shopping is incredible and your avatar can look any way you want it. You will mae friends from all over the world and be able to interact with them in physical ways. Cuddling etc.
There is help always available to teach you how to do things in many groups and friends, FB etc.
I mean, what's not to like?

Well I'm in Second life ! to be honest if you go there and use it for free great ! but I won't pay a single penny for it ! it runs on a coding that's 20 + Years but thats ok to a point ! It lag like HELL ! And for those who wonder .. No your computer has nothing to do with it nor in most case your internet speed ! its theirs architectures and Data transfer speed ! As a result in one night 7 peoples left for another platform (very similar) So before you makke friends there and so on .. just have a very good look ad thought ! but for god sake don't pay ! its not worh it !

It's an amazing virtual world to make friends in, there are live musicians performing daily streaming from all over the globe.

So many reviews, half of them so bad. Makes one wonder how Second Life managed to be around for 22 years if half of its users hate it, right?

Well, here's the catch: no, Second Life isn't an easy platform to join.

By "easy" I mean that if you have the expectation that this is going to be "as easy as Facebook", or, well, to be more precise, "as easy as Roblox"... then the plain and short answer is: No.

Instead, it's a very complex 3D environment, where hundreds of thousands of people interact in a way too vast area (impossible to visit in a lifetime) for random visits to be fulfilling. And because of that complexity, the Second Life Viewer interface is complex, too. Because, in this virtual world environment, you're not just the passive consumer of content: you're the *producer* as well. And that means that all 3D editing tools for interactive content (that includes programming, not only modelling 3D objects) are part of the application as well.

And while models are not exactly movie-quality (with millions of polygons), they are far more detailed than anything such as Minecraft (only cubes) or Roblox (extremely simplified meshes)/Horizon Worlds. On top of that are the dozens of thousands of very talented amateur 3D content creators, who are used to render items with millions of polygons, and attempt to do the same for Second Life — because, well, you *can* do that! The result, of course, is what we popularly call "a lagfest" — the current generation of consumer-grade video cards are not designed to render meshes with million of polygons, each fully textured with four 2K textures (for photo-realistic physics-based rendering), 60 frames per second, on high-DVI (e.g., what Apple calls "Retina") displays.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. Then comes the shock of realisation: there are an almost infinite number of items to be acquired, for the wildest possible usages. The Second Life Marketplace, which only offers a very slight, un-curated view of what is being offered (the majority of content for sale is inside the environment itself) — and even so, it has dozens of millions of items for sale. Back in 2013 (!), some officially released statistics put the number of unique items in the database at 6 billion (yes, with a B). There are many more these days, of course (since all "old" content will *still work*). Open the Inventory in any popular virtual world, and it'll have a few hundreds — perhaps thousands —of items, each neatly placed in the appropriate folder, a simple point-and-click interface to use them. In Second Life, the *average* user has roughly 100,000 items in their inventory — mostly unsorted, since there are far too many categories anyway — with many boasting over 300k(!). Never mind the sheer amount of time required to get all of those — think also about the costs! There are millions and millions of very high-quality freebies — but there are *billions* more of extremely high-end items for sale; and while competition is fierce, and drives prices down (comparable items are much more costly in Roblox, for instance), it's a safe bet that just for your "mildly average-looking avatar" you'll need to spend US$50-100 — often much more. The good thing, of course, is that you don't need to do that in one go — but it sort of accumulates over time (for historical reasons, one item of clothing *usually* costs around US$1, on average).

Each of those, of course, come with their *own* user interface — that is, it's hardly as simple as point-and-click! You get a full mini-user interface as a HUD (heads-up display) which gives you access to more and more and more options. Body and head meshes (sold separately!) are exceptionally complex in that regard; the state-of-the-art heads, for instance, come with (at least) three *separate* configuration systems (HUDs), each giving access to layers and layers of complexity — from the shape, colour, and size of your eyelashes to several layers of lipstick and glitter, and all that while having programmable expressions to suit your mood.

Switch brands, and you get to learn a completely different interface, each as complex as the other, and with a tendency to grow in complexity over the years: the competition is not only in the quality of the designs, but also in how many features get packed in each release. And this is true, from the doorbell on your home, to the flower you wear on your hair. On top of all that, many items can be even manually adjusted — because avatar body shapes are infinitesimally adjustable, so anything you wear or use must be as well.

And you *need* avatars, since this is a *social* world.

So... entering Second Life is not for everybody. Thus the bad reviews: these are from people who simply have no patience for all of the above. It's a huge learning curve.

But it's worth every cent.

I paid my membership and purchased SL money. I've only had access to Second life one time. They took my money, and I am unable to get help logging into the platform. I am going to contact my lawyer. I have screenshots and information that will support my claim. It's unreal. My name there was CoffeeeCandy. I remembered using this site years ago and thought it was the same. It's not!

I haven't heard about any false account bans or terminations outside of the reviews on this site. This platform is not beginner-friendly whatsoever, and everything feels primitive, but if you can get past those hurdles, it's a great platform for more mature users. This is an early example of a metaverse, and it actually feels like its name: a Second Life, as it has a full economy and everything.

If i could give no stars i would its an expensive outfit and not to mention i was stolen from and no one actually cares. I purchased an ad Board in Freebie galaxy the owner there is very crooked i paid $1,700 and instead of fixing the problem they steal my money and the board itself they stick up there own add in it, hoping they can rob me ,they are highly mistaken. The problem is they have had free advertisement for three days on my money .that is not how you do business.please contact me if anyone has experienced this with them i will make a case.

I'm sorry but people who put one star etc how about you say reason your account was removed or banned and the actual responses you got back from the tickets most likely full evidence of reason you were removed or banned. Also people pitching about the cloth and sexual nature of the game and the person saying they got banned for proactive clothing most likely got banned for wearing innapropiate cloth on Sims for everyone not allowing nudity. Don't believe these 1 star reviews it's a fun game also your not forced to spend any money.

Keep crushing ,and i have a 16GB RAM,no matter what viewer i download and use,also everytime after crushing hours and hours of works and editing going lost...counting i had spend more than 200 dollars for this game this is unacceptable and i m quitting playing.
I never raccomend losing your times and nerves and money on this game,just save your time,there are better RV and social games out there who give you proper working services

I have 2 accounts. I moved them both to basic (0 cost) because I knew I would not be playing for awhile. Moved to basic on November 1st, 2024 with both accounts. Just got an email notice that they did NOT stop charging the account as of 01/19/2025. On Either account. Switched to basic AGAIN and this time removed the credit card information. Obviously the company cannot be trusted.