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Second Life Still Growing

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Second Life has been getting a bit of criticism lately, but that doesn’t phase the folks at Linden Life. They say the game is still growing quite well. Their new CEO says the growth rate continues to accelerate, even though the company is no longer a tech darling like Twitter currently is.

“The reality is that Second Life continues to grow; every second someone joins. Second Life is hopping.”

The number of “active users” at Second Life has grown 25 percent since September last year, while the amount of time and money spent in the virtual world has climbed by similar percentages, according to Kingdon.

One of the issues hurting the image of Second Life is the amount of vacant real estate. Many have joined the game and later abandoned it. Whatever real estate they worked on becomes abandoned.

Linden Labs claims that $360 million was spent inside of the game last year.