Over at Second Life Insider there is a post by Moo Money that is talking about the economy in Teen Second Life that begins by saying
"I've previously mentioned how depressed the economy is on the Teen Grid. They create content for essentially peanuts. Their lindens cost the same as ours, but they can purchase three times the amount of items. Some innovative teens are working to change that, though.
Digital Refinery, the brainchild of Reallife Orca, is a teen-run content company with some of the finest content creators on the grid. They realized that Main Grid content companies had clients that weren't able to target their main market. Designers such as Ryan Dayton, Nikolai Althouse, and Brooke Barmy will be working with clients to show off their work.
Now that it's summer, concurrency will more than double, to a whopping 500 residents on at a time. Hopefully this will call attention to the Teen Grid and bring in more residents....."
READ MORE HERE >>>> but basically, nobody seems to know that it's impossible to sign up for a new Teen account at the moment, and believe me, I've been trying since about March 2007, on behalf of my two teens.
Countless fruitless emails and now calls to the support number given to me by a Linden in an email, but still no joy. The UK based support team acknowledge there is a problem with ALL NEW ACCOUNT SIGNUPS for Teen Second Life, but there is no notice to this effect on the signup page. Would be bad PR I suppose.
My daughter in frustration signed up for an adult account, but I didn't feel happy about this, and we contacted the support team, who froze her Premium account (which I'm still paying for) and said to email her scanned birth certificate to Blue (Blu?) at Linden Labs and it would be transferred to the teen grid (existing accounts can be moved apparently).
More phone calls and emails, but still no transfer.
No wonder the Teen Grid economy is depressed and they want more residents. If nobody can join, then they wont' get any either!
Talking of Second Life Insider, there appear to be comments on posts, but I can't, for the life of me, see a "comment" link so I can make one!
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