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<blockquote data-quote="michaeljpastor" data-source="post: 9622180" data-attributes="member: 81243">Emphasis above mine - it's not that Project Sigil was a failure - they just concluded (correctly, IMHO) that it's not a money maker unto itself.&nbsp; Real Estate and clothes and furniture as a money making enterprise when it's essentially infinitely available just doesn't work.I personally don't think it should have ever been its own money maker - I saw it as an incentive to spend money on DDB proper.&nbsp; Attract new people with a shiny new toy, and if they bite on the rest of it, great!I've said elsewhere, I think if it was just a large VR chat room with taverns to meet new players and LFG postings on a virtual bulletin board, and cosplay contests for your avatar, and PvP arenas to practice your moves, people would eat it up.&nbsp; But VR as a business model is a tough sell - it's like trying to sell &quot;Internet&quot; - [USER=62611]@Home[/USER] isn't around as a company anymore.&nbsp; Neither is SecondLife the second coming of commerce on the internet.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="michaeljpastor, post: 9622180, member: 81243"] Emphasis above mine - it's not that Project Sigil was a failure - they just concluded (correctly, IMHO) that it's not a money maker unto itself. Real Estate and clothes and furniture as a money making enterprise when it's essentially infinitely available just doesn't work. I personally don't think it should have ever been its own money maker - I saw it as an incentive to spend money on DDB proper. Attract new people with a shiny new toy, and if they bite on the rest of it, great! I've said elsewhere, I think if it was just a large VR chat room with taverns to meet new players and LFG postings on a virtual bulletin board, and cosplay contests for your avatar, and PvP arenas to practice your moves, people would eat it up. But VR as a business model is a tough sell - it's like trying to sell "Internet" - [USER=62611]@Home[/USER] isn't around as a company anymore. Neither is SecondLife the second coming of commerce on the internet. [/QUOTE]

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