[geeks] Second Life is not a game?

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Second Life people make REAL SPENDABLE INCOMES that they can live on.
> Linden Labs has not the least objection to people converting cash back
> and forth between Linden dollars and real negotiable US dollars.  The
> ability to do so, to convert your profits inside Second Life's virtual
> economy into money you can use to pay your rent or your utility bill, is
> half the POINT.  It is NOT intended to be a game.[1]  It is intended to
> be a complete virtual environment, literally a "second [virtual] life",
> in which you have the potential to make a living for your physical,
> non-virtual self.  3D-avatar MMORPGs are virtual *fantasies*.  Second
> Life is intended to be a virtual *reality*.

Everything you described can be done in front of a poker table in Vegas. 
  It has no relevance to whether SL is a game or not.

(For the record, I have no opinion one way or the other.)

Peace...  Sridhar