Comments on: Breaking News: Hula Hoops No Longer Hot

by: csven

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:17:11 +0000

Now that the report’s numbers have been debunked and the whole thing pulled by the Yankee Group, I guess we’ll go back to ignoring positive numbers (like those reported by the Guardian) which indicate Second Life isn’t necessarily stagnating but is perhaps the stickiest application out there… including Facebook.

Guess the schadenfreude will have to wait, eh?

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Fri, 05 Oct 2007 02:20:38 +0000

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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:16:18 +0000

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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:09:00 +0000

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Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:01:31 +0000

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by: Jeff Freeman

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:14:08 +0000

It’s a niche product and it’s captured about as much of its niche as it looks likely to capture. Or even much, much more of its niche. SLH noted an alarming decline in SL's growth relative to WoW, an IM client, and The Sims Online, which apparently is still running. Theirs was really just an educated guess, though. As they noted:

Game companies are infamous for inflating creatively defining subscriber numbers and use different methods for counting players.

Apparently the Yankee Group confirms their speculation. So much for all the Alexa tracking naysayers!