Nice article about Second Life, but this is like saying that going to work is better than staying home and playing Dungeons and Dragons. Perhaps true for some, but you seem to be comparing a game (World of Warcraft) to a virtual world (Second Life). It’s a bit of a non sequitur, seemingly.

Woooow… you got me to stop playing Computer Games! And I’m going to try out Second life, and I really hope I don’t get addicted.

with regards

Lucifer

Yeah, Second Life and World of warcraft are totally different games. Second life is basically about having a whole seperate life and being able to be WHOEVER you want to be, like a fresh start on life. World of Warcraft is ‘warcraft’ the point of the game isn’t to have another life it is to quest and to pursue the war between Horde and Alliance. One cannot be better than the other it is all based on what the player is looking for out of an online video game. It is based on personal preferences.

how do i get this 2nd life? do i have to buy it from a store

No you do not have to buy anything.it is completely free!Go to secondlife.com. At the bottom of the screen, you will see some links. Go to downloads. Click on that, and your on your way. If you have any trouble, either getting to secondlife.com, downloading it, or if you’re in the game, my email is nazem89@gmail.com, and in the game, my name is amir89 ametza. Please, don’t hesitate to ask any questions!

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I absolutely love second life and even tried WoW i couldnt get into it. i love that second life is user friendly and FREE and also that i can do basically whatever i feel like doing from riding a roller coaster to ballroom dancing it is fun and exciting to see what else i can do so yes i agree to second life is better than world of war craft.

World of Warcraft and Second Life are two different genres entirely. You can’t compare them. One is a virtual world designed predominately for social networking. The other is an objective-based video game. They might both be MMO’s, but they’re both totally different products with totally different goals.

Whether one is better than the other depends SOLELY on what you’re looking for, so this is not absolute, and will definitely not apply to everyone.

I tried out second life. It completely sucks. Yeah anyone can make clothes,cars, spaceships, whatever and most of them do. So the game is flooded with advertisements for these businesses. Also you can only be whoever you want to be if you happen to be in an area where the owner allows it. I picked up a cool space ship in the tutorial area and couldnt use it in a s single spot I could find.. Is that what you call freedom?.

You make it sound so easy but it’s really not. You get dropped off in a world with no goals, no land (unless you want to spend real money), with little to know goals in the game.

It might be nice that some people have made games within the games, but finding those games is hard to do. It’s not even a game at all really. Just a social network like Myspace in a 3D world and unless you happen to be a programmer or have a lot of time to learn on your hands you’re not going to be making any real world cash out of the game in the first day.

Lastly you make it sound like its completely free but in order to do a lot of things in Second life you have to pay real money for them.

I dont’t think it’s a fare comparisson. WoW is an adventure, and second life is some kind of simulation, personally i like my own life and don’t need a SECOND LIFE, other way i would prefer a story (NOT MMORPGs).

Yes of course this guy is completely correct in every regard. Oh wait..11 million players on WoW, Something tells me blizzard are making alot more money from WoW then the company making Second Life.

lol how is being able to hold business meetings make it better

lol free u pay u get better nuff said

Comparing Second Life to World of Warcraft is like comparing apples to oranges. The only thing they have in common is that they are both online. SL is not a game, but more like a virtual chat room. WOW has quests, goals, etc. SL is just for socializing. WOW is for solving new quests, leveling, etc. SL is all about social interaction and communication.

Nice to read SL is alive and kicking and by some of you even considered better than WOW. Reading the Belgian Press titling “Second Life one foot in the grave”, one would believe otherwise

But I agree, WOW and Second Life are two different things. While the first is an uncreative game with a clear purpose, the second is a creative platform with an unclear purpose.

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I’m glad you enjoy playing Second Life. Would be more interested in seeing a comparison to a similar game though.

Such as Second Life vs. Sims 3

Totally agree with Charles.

Who cares about Intellectual Property Rights… ALL your VIRTUAL GOODS are hosted on SL Servers, and unless you own them, Intellectual Property Rights is useless.
The same applies to WoW. You can get banned anytime.

Also, IT’S ALL ABOUT MONEY. Although you can earn through SL, both still ain’t totally free and both are for those who trash much of their so called life in front of a PC.

I disagree with the claim that SL is better than WOW. this list more of shows what advantages SL has over WOW, not how its better. Plus, the games are very different, WOW being about adventure and combat, and SL about fun and creation. It’s hard to compare the 2 without being biased. You can’t claim SL is better, without giving a good and analised counter-argument.

well people i will tell you this if you play second life you could make your own goal and unlike world of warcraft you dont actually have to buy the game and there is alot of cool free stuff you can get if you STOP BEING LAZY AND LOOK FOR IT another thing is you could be what ever you like unlike WoW you can not party or look out of theme and plus second life has NO FREE TRIAL you are basicaly like a member the only reasin you need to suscribe is for to get land and money and last time i check YOU ONLY HAD TO PAY $2.50 USD FOR 599 LINDEN BUCKS IF YOU WERE NOT LAZY AND WILLING TO GIVE MONE Y YOU WOULD NOT BE COMPLAINING WOULD and ps charles there are some areas where you cant drop anything or fly micheal second life has zombie invasions and if i buy something expensive i can copy it and give it to my fren for free and plus with secondlife you dont run out of missions and have to wait for more

I play both SL and WOW so its like being addicted to Heroin and Crack, sl is not better than wow, would you put your puppy in a ring with Muhammad Ali?

Dont you love your puppy, do you want to see him get turned into puppysauce?

Dont you love Ali? Dont you want to see him float like a butterfly and sting like a bee?

Yus love, yus you do!

sl is not free, if you want to build you need land, sandboxes are a fairytale myth, ive lasted longer as a lvl 16 in wintergrasp than ive lasted in the public sandboxes in sl. But i had a sim and a business and loved it but the overhead was too high sl paid for itself, and it can pay for wow so why must we fight

cant you just make pretty things in sl
and kill pretty things in wow?

Cant we all just get along?

The correct respons to a “10 reasons why WoW is better than SL” would be to spam the author with angry messages that the two are non-comparable, possibly followed by a “10 reasons why comparing SL to WoW does not make sense”.

1: WoW consists solely of high-quality profesionally developed content, while SL provides extremely flexible means of adding your own content.
2: WoW will continuosly point you in a direction to advancement. Advancement is not defined in SL.
3: WoW has a balanced and well defined combat system. SL doesn’t have a combat system, but allows anyone to make their own.
4: WoW has a reasonable monthly fee. SL can be used for making money, or it can be a major expense.
5: WoW has a story to it. SL is completely open ended.
6: In WoW, you can get loot. In SL, you can get freebies, make your own stuff, or buy stuff for real money.
7: WoW has a theme. SL has whatever anyone felt SL missed.
8: WoW allows players to come together to feel uber while beating a boss. SL allows players to come together to feel uber while creating a healthy business model for advertising their experimental cyber-product.
9: In WoW, there’s a well defined game that makes chatting secondary. In SL, social interaction is so paramount that there’s an animation for “being in the process of typing a message”.
10: There’s absolutely no similarities between the two, other than the fact that they both give you the ability to interact with other people from the comfort of your office chair.

I play WoW, run Second Life community – and a few other MMOs for Education. It’s like saying what’s better Blue or Green in many ways. Warcraft has great rep/ecnomomy system with questing – that can teach plenty if you are a savvy teacher, or you might need something specific and go to SL to do it. There are people running undergraduate finance units in WoW and SL … it depends on your outcome … I am wondering … what is better SL or Unity3D right now.