Metaplace Alpha Testers Running Amok
As I wrote before, Metaplace was looking for alpha testers and I had applied.
No surprise - I didn't make the grade. But in the email I received as a consolation prize, it suggested that I create a login for the forums and participate. I did, creating an account on the Metaplace forums and poking around. There is absolutely nothing that I could find which a non-alpha tester could do? What is the point?
I asked, but haven't really received a good answer yet. It does seem like a very strange way to do things; I for one am not impressed with this. There is no way for me to actively participate in discussion regarding things which I haven't seen, and have only heard of abstractly.
Methinks Metaplace got the buzz premature. Web enabled objects certainly is something to build on, and I do have ideas... but those ideas are mine. If I'm not using Metaplaced, I can't play with my ideas.
In essence... yawn. Next?
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I didn't make the grade either
I applied for the Metaplace alpha the day the story came out on Slashdot a while back. Took the time to write a wonderful application, and didn't make the grade either, if that's any consolation.
I'm excited about a lot of the ideas of Metaplace. But for now, I agree with your assessment: yawn, for now. But I'm always watching for when the SL killer will come around! The state of SL right now reminds me of what Prodigy and AOL were like in the late 80's when 1200 baud modems were state of the art, before the internet came to the masses.
- Unoti Quonset