A Buggy Second Life

I tried to login into Second Life just now but an error message greeted me.

The error message was “Login Failed. The inventory system is currently unavailable!” Before I was only freezing but now I can’t login and reading through Second Life’s official blog it seems that I’m not the only one who experienced this error. Many residents are experiencing this login error and according to the blog that this error “is likely to last until tomorrow”!!!

A few residents are saying that the problem is with the user or with the computer running the client and not Second Life. Now, this is untrue because if it was true then why would Linden Labs post updates regarding these errors. There is a problem within the internal system of Second Life and they should find long term solutions for it and not short term ones. Informing the public about these errors or problems is one thing but actually fixing it is another.

Every week we see the same problems and every week it get fixed only to happen again in another week.

Second Life is very lucky because there is no real competition for them and it could take a few more years before an actual competition emerges. Right now, you either love it or leave it but I don’t think that’s a very good way to attract new residents.

We all want Second Life to grow because as it grows, opportunities grows with it but with too many problems affecting logins, inventory, support, network failures, asset failures, etc. are not going to help it.

I guess there’s nothing much anyone can do except wait it out and while I’m waiting I think I’ll have another crack at Final Fantasy VII…