2009年4月21日 星期二

(revised)Take it for granted! It’s all free in second life!

Take it for granted! It’s all free in second life!
In second life, players enjoy shopping, but they get everything for free!
Buying things without paying? You must be crazy in real life. Yet, in second life, it could be possible and reasonable. The players can take everything free in the places of second life such as "Freebie dove” and “Freebie Heaven” and allows their figures called Avatars in second life to change their looks randomly.
At the beginning of this game, the players have to choose one of fixed figures, for example, “a girl next door”, as their avatars that represent their identities in second life. Since the style of avatar is fixed one, so if the players want to change the looking style, they must go shopping for the figure. Yet, there is a problem they may encounter. As well as in the real life, players in second life have to pay for their stuffs, but the token they use are Linden Money. Without money, players can’t buy anything. Especially for those who just start the game (we call them “newbies” in second life), the need of money becomes the biggest difficulty as they go shopping. Therefore, the places such as freebie dove or freebie beach give them a chance. Most of the stuffs there, no matter the clothes, accessories or the furniture are free, even the organs are free in the freebies. The players just need to go there and take the stuffs for themselves and change their styles. Some players share the pleasures of free stuffs in freebies with us. Zoe, who looks like a catty says that she comes to freebie world very often because everything here costs no more than 10 dollars and most of them are free. And Lisa, who dresses like a punk girl, tells us that she comes here every week to check the new stuffs and she enjoys to changes her look very much. In fact, Lisa goes to many places like freebies to get her free stuffs. Like many players, Zoë and Lisa spend a lot of time hanging around the freebies world and collecting those free stuffs. Getting the free things in second life; to them, are enjoyable.
Second life provides an opportunity for players to realize their shopping desires which can’t be accomplished in real life so that more and more people play the game. Want a Gucci bag? Take it from freebie. Or a cool race car? Take it without paying. Even though the desire of body changing, the plastic surgery is unnecessary. Need a new face? Just log in, find a lovely one and replace the old. What’s best is that all of them are free! No crazy, only shopping!

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