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This is such a great game, although it can take a while to get into it. You can be whatever you want like a tree, dog, vampire, boy, or girl, you name it. The transformation comes from the fact that you can change your avatar's gender at any time. The game is free to play. The Installer is la ...more
From: Lady Sekhmet , 217 months, post #1
It's a shame this isn't available as a truly free service. $72/year is a little steep, and if they're going to offer a free trial then it really should be free. The idea of handing over my name, address, phone, and credit card info just to look around is a bit much. Heck most people on this board (including the person who submitted this entry) won't even register an email address.

Anyone know of any free alternative VR worlds?

From: KitsuneKit , 217 months, post #2
I'm glad that I jumped in when they were giving away truly free service. I have only the very basic package but I don't have to pay anything.

From: Emma , 217 months, post #3
I take your points Lady S but most MMO 'free' trials require credit card info a.) to limit the free trials to 1 per card number and b.) to hope they can start billing you the second the free trial ends.

I also play second life and it is fun but it's also a highly commercialised environment that can feel quite tacky at times. As for appearance, if you want the best-looking clothes, hair etc and/or a nice house. it will cost you extra money on top of the basic subscription.

It has only a small fraction of the number of players that the leading MMOs do and the makers seem to keep making dumb moves rather than try to broaden the player base. I'm not convinced whether I'll still be playing it in a year or so.

I think its something people need to have a look at to see if they like it or not. It's a great concept but has its flaws IMO.



From: KitsuneKit , 217 months, post #4
Well, with all hope, one day we will all be able to live in a virtual world where we could be whatever we want.

From: LilBigMan , 217 months, post #5
You are already in the Matrix. Maybe they programmed you incorrectly for the wrong species/gender. Better take the Red Pill to see reality. Warning: the powers to be have lied about everything!

hehe


From: guest (Bieeanda) , 217 months, post #6
Erm, the only subscription fees that Linden Labs charges are for people that opt in to rent land. If they charged a recurring fee for basic, I would have got rid of my account ages ago.

Emma's comments were right on the money, from my experiences. Unfortunately as well, some of the in-game liason staff display a distinct lack of professionalism, and the whole thing is set up to encourage a victim mentality. Many people will complain to the liasons at the drop of a hat, and even being accidentally bumped into pops up a dialogue box that takes you to the complaint form.

From: KitsuneKit , 217 months, post #7
I got it. It has been forever since I have been there, but Habbo Hotel.
It is free, but mildly entertaining.

From: guest (XXX) , 217 months, post #8
Well, I didn't have complaints yet. Off course some things will cost, but you can't get everything for free. I'm playing the girl of my dreams, have many girlfriends an occasianally sex with a guy. Which is nice!!
Just check it out with the free account, it's fun!!
And I think there should be an office of Metamorphose there to help T-girls to become beautifull!!!

Kisses
an addicted SL-player


From: guest (JayGee) , 217 months, post #9
Bottom line: These things aren't charities. They're businesses trying to sell a product for a price in order to get a return on their invetment.

I love the ideas of MMORPG's, but they do cost a lot, when you add it up. For that reason I am no longer playing Ultima Online & I quite Earth and Beyond long before it quit itself.

From: guest (Mr Nobody) , 217 months, post #10
I am giving Lady Sekhmet another "Debbie Downer" award, for once again finding the dark gray stormcloud surrounding someone else's silver lining.

From: guest (Ramachil) , 217 months, post #11
IMVU (www.imvu.com ) is a free program which you can create your own avatar. You can look like many different people.

From: guest (weirdoid) , 217 months, post #12
is the the online game someone tolf me of with near limitless character creation options? if so can you mix gender traits?


From: guest , 217 months, post #13
Second Life does not have a free trial. Second Life does not have a free trial. Second Life does not have a free trial.

Second Life has Basic Accounts, which are free and last forever, and Premium Accounts, which are not free.

Second Life used to have a free trial. Now it does not have a free trial. It has free accounts and pay accounts. But Second Life does not have a free trial.

Hey, on an unrelated note, you know what would be cool? It'd be cool if people started realizing that Second Life stopped the free trial policy and started a free accounts versus paid accounts policy in its place. Like, practically a bloody year ago now it's been since Second Life did that. That would be great. Because then maybe people would stop going around saying how Second Life has a free trial but you have to give a cc# just for the trial and it's only seven days omg, and they'd realize that Second Life does not have a free trial. And then I'll have one less thing to slam my head into my desk really, really, really hard over, which would be wonderful because my head is starting to hurt.

After that, maybe people will start learning that you don't necessarily need to give out a credit card number to get a basic account, though that's probably going a bit too fast. And who wants to give out their cell phone number, anyhow.

  • goes to bed, sticking a needle of valium in his neck on the way* Ohhhh. Yeahhhh.

From: Lady Sekhmet , 217 months, post #14
Hooo there big fella. Someone should have had their valium first, and then posted.

In point of fact, Second Life DOES have a free trial (from their site):
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A credit card, PayPal or mobile phone is required for identification purposes only. Additional Basic Accounts cost a one-time fee of $9.95 after a <span style="font-color: red">FREE 7-Day Trial</span> .
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Granted, it's for additional accounts, but nevertheless there is such a thing as a Second Life free trial. And if you read my post you'd see my concern was that their "free basic account" still required that I fork over my personal financial information. That's just not going to happen.

Now, may I suggest you place some sort of pad on your desk? It would appear that even very tiny events are sufficient to trigger your head smacking.

From: guest (Lamia) , 217 months, post #15
Two free VR Universes that I can think of off the top of my head are There (www.there.com) and Entropia Universe (www.entropiauniverse.com).

"There" has a large friendly community and every account now comes with a free hoverboard. You buy things with Therebucks, which are converted from real money at a rate of 1,800 T$ = 1 USD.

Entropia Universe (formerly Project Entropia) is much like There, but it has the added elements of a Futuristic Sci-Fi theme and a skill system which allows you to hunt and create items (armor, weapons, et al). This makes it somewhat more similar to traditional MMORPGs. The unit of currency here is the PED (Project Entropia Dollar), which equals 100 PEC (Project Entropia Cents). What makes this VR Universe stand out is that it has a Real Cash Economy. This means that you can convert real money to PED and then back again (for a nominal fee) at a rate of 10 PED = 1 USD. With this system, all the virtual items have a real value and you can actually make a profit if you're resourceful enough.

From: KitsuneKit , 217 months, post #16
The only problem that I have with SecondLife, is that I can't get onto it with the computers in the library. They said that they are fine with students playing games on the comptuers, (so long as they aren't holding up the computer for people that need to use it for research). But it will get to the screen that sez "Verifiy protocols..." and then it quits. I just won't be able to use it until I get something better than dial up at my house.

From: guest (Bieeanda) , 217 months, post #17
My best guess is that the library's computers are firewalled. Poking at the SL tech support pages strongly suggests the same thing.

From: Lady Sekhmet , 217 months, post #18
From their FAQ:

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Second Life needs to connect to ports 443/TCP, 12035/UDP, 12036/UDP, and 13000-13050/UDP.
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Although 443 is a generic (SSL), all the others are very non standard (IANA lists them as "unassigned"). I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that they are blocked and it's very unlikely you'd be able to persuade the library to open them up.

From: guest (bry) , 216 months, post #19
yeah i love this game! i just got started a couple of days ago and im facinated by how vast it is. my character name is brianna bertrand, and i made her a very curvy/busty latino woman with dark hair and eyes...like a fantasy come true :-D

From: Lady Sekhmet , 216 months, post #20
Now if they can just stop it from crashing all the time...

Hey Kitsune, have you tried getting on via Furnation? Seems like they're offline an awful lot.

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