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Oh please. Second life is not a "game" it's a greedy sociallchat/mmorgp that lacks the very core of mmorpg's everywhere. The community is greedy and trite and everything has to be brought with ill-priced lindens in order to get anything. There is no leveling up or anything like that. Basically your at the mercy of whoever owns their virtual land and land-owners are such barrons on SL that they perma-ban at will. 

Beware of intolerance and downright smug spam by those so-called "community" members that lurk the forums in their ignorance and pride(especially the idiots that have posted over 1,000 post and been around for a year or so). The fact that lindens can be exchanged for real money has caused many tensions on this "mmorpg" and has lead to real-life issues(see "Linden Lab gets sued" articles on the internet). Even worst that people are very tedious and AR (aka abuse report) just about anything on here can get your account banned by Second life linden Labs just like that without knowing the reason why it was banned in the first place. On mmorpgs, you can fight and hit other players. On Second Life it's considered "abuse". Even bumping into an avatar is considered "abuse". This is as pathetic as it gets.

Other than being able to build items and sell them there's not much to do on SL. Users are often pre-occupied in their tiny-knit community groups and act as though they cannot speak to others outside of their bubbles. Thinking of buying "property"? Forget it. It cost so much real-life money just to own a slot of land that comes easily with other mmorpg's that it's just wasteful and down-right distasteful. The main-region is laggy and glitchy and is assorted with all sorts of various junk from others living upon it's riggeded pixels. A private island/homestead(that provides any privacy) costs $100 Second life linden with LL or you can undergo a Estate Owner (who is basically the land owner) and be at the mercy of a total stranger to put your occupation on that they'll keep their land and not end up booting your stuff.Any items you have placed upon that land is endangered of getting lost or deleted, and that's items that you have purchased SEPARATELY with your OWN MONEY. Again, NOT good options. Rather spend 10 bucks a month on a mmorgp where fun isn't considered a crime and actually enjoy it instead of tippy-toeing on bs land-owners and people's garbage both on the forums and in-world SL, loosing items, and being at the mercy of LL when they ban accounts for petty reasons because of a few smug AR idiots.The arrogance combined with the paranoia of it's TOS-bonded users both makes Second Life a very unpleasant experience and not one that i would recommend to a new-comer (aka 1 week/day old).

The fact that these idiots are so uptight on here that they call anyone who disturbs them a "griefer". Griefers are those who down-right hit/smack/cube a person or area. It can range something as petty as walking into another avatar to causing cubes to fall and lagging everyone around the area. A stupid term used by an even stupider community. If you want to have real fun without hindrance, where fun is welcomed and accepted, if you want real achievements than dealing with a butt-hurt community that runs like a retirement home, looks elsewhere. Second Life isn't worth the money and butt-kissing it really is. And they are very intolerant of teens/child avis on SL too. Just look at any forum topic concerning this and see the results yourself before and after the "merge".