The downward trend of Second Life user-concurrency appears to have halted for the moment, with the figure stabilising at a weekly median of approximately 50,000.

What bothers me about this result is that new-user registrations are presently up to 14-18 thousand signups per day, which seems to only be just enough at present to balance out attrition and user-abandonment.

That’s a worryingly large figure – I don’t think there’s any other way to look at it. I mean, good that Second Life has hit an equilibrium point for the moment, but not so good that it requires such a large number of daily signups to reach it.

New-user retention must be – not to put too fine a point on it – exceptionally crappy right now in percentage terms.

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Tags: Concurrency, Opinion, Second Life, Statistics, Virtual Environments and Virtual Worlds