Second Life to offer Only Paid Service? Update: Grid Issues
There were grid issues as of early this morning. The Second Life web site was not functioning. Logings to the Second Life Grid were also down. In world search in Second Life was also disabled with instabilities in the grid following for a few additional hours. With all the talk about improvements to the system and paid identity verification in Second Life it is now clear to me what the goal of Linden Labs is. Very smartly, it is my opinion that Linden Labs wants to reduce the user base of Second Life so much so that only Premium paying members remain similar to World of Warcraft. This will reduce the load on their systems so much that the effect will be fewer outages and less downtime. This solves all of Linden Labs problems in a nice tight little package!