"George Bush doesn't care about black people"

In case you were living under a rock in 2005 and missed the quote from a Hurricane Katrina telethon, here's the video:



I'm going to say it:

Linden Lab doesn't care about SL users.

Feel free to quote me, cite me, whatever. Linden Lab just doesn't give a fuck about we, the users, adn they've shown this time and time and time again. The latest evidence is the Open Space pricing debacle (AKA the 1776 SL revolution). Now, today, they throw us some buzzword crumbs on the blog to reassure the base: http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/11/03/transforming-the-second-life-experience/

Nevermind bringing this up with the core group of users who spend their time each week discussing the resident experience and UI and (up 'til recently) submitted nearly all of the viewer UI patches, no. They want to scale back the Rx office hour to twelve times a year because guess what, apparently resident input now matters that much less.

I'm sick of this company. Sick of the way they behave in relation to users. I'm sure it's just a cultural thing, but the divide is vast (and--frankly--considering how much I've come to love SL over the year+ I've been here, it's fucking disheartening).