MMO10 That's not the Second Life economy!

Filed under: Business models, Economy, belief, Second Life, Virtual worlds

This week Linden Lab published a set of economicstatisticsfor Q4 2009, and for 2009 as a whole. After going through thestatisticsin detail, and discovering at least one important typo and one important calculation error, it looked like we were going to have to recheck every figure before presenting them.

That's a lot of work, especially as thestatisticspublished in the quarterly/annual reports doesn't follow the same definitions as the ongoing statistical feeds or is not represented in them.

So we thought, well sod that for a game of soldiers. Instead, let's talk about the report's allege that the Second Life economy has grown 65% in 2009 over 2008, and why that's just rubbish.

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