Interoperability; was: [sldev] Call for requirements: ISO MPEG-V ...

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 2008-06-03, at 03:34, Felix Duesenburg wrote:
> The main question to answer for any such thing to happen is,  
> where's the business angle to justify such an effort? Creating  
> interfaces and mappings between spaces that were never made with  
> interoperability in mind is not a trivial task. Ultimately the  
> customer, the user will have to pay for it to be enabled. Is there  
> anything you want to do so badly that you'd part with your hard  
> earned L$, PED, gold nuggets or real world currency?

I've spent hundreds of dollars on my avatar over the past three  
years: that and land rent for the Coonspiracy is where pretty much  
everything I earn in SL goes to. Why wouldn't I spend real money to  
carry that around with me?

> And, even before that, what's the business advantage for the  
> respective companies running those worlds?

Getting people who would have absolutely no interest in visiting WoW  
as an elf or a thinly disguised hobbit to play the game? People  
willing to pay a premium to have a custom avatar, but not willing to  
pay a penny to be a dark elf no matter how fantastic a costume Sony  
or Blizzard or whoever come up for it?