Comments on: OpenSim retail outlets

By: Maria Korolov

Maria Korolov — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:41:22 +0000

Grid4Us also recently launched a Web-based shop, called GridBay: http://gridbay.de/ It says its in the "test phase" now. -- Maria

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What are people saying? – « SLookable — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:24:48 +0000

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By: Peter Stindberg

Peter Stindberg — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:47:43 +0000

From a merchant's point of view there are TWO major limiting factors for me to not open shops in the more popular opensim grids:

1) Obviously the lack of an economy system is a problem. So far I only found InWorldz offering an economy with in-world money. For all the other opensim grids I need to rely on 3rd party payment methods which are clumsy and prone to manipulation. The grid coming first with an integrated micropayment system similar to L$ in SL will have a huge impact.

2) Rental space. Of course I can connect/buy my own regions in any of the popular grids, but my business does neither justify the huge space a full sim offers, nor the expenses – even taing into account that in opensim grids prices are much lower compared to SL. What I would need is a <= 512sqm parcel which I can rent at a reasonable weekly/monthly price.

Basically I intend to make a blogpost of my own on these issues for quite a while now.