Climate ingame change at 3dx and 3XO news
Lets start today with some facts. Yesterday 3XO did announce news and make public there might be a delay for the Alpha-Testing for about maybe 2-3 months. If you did read my last blog I was already talking about delays. But that is pretty normal and not bad at all. What is really interesting about the news is the video they did make public with the news. Announced Video
The fact that 3XO will use DAZ3D avatars will force the need of a special lighting. Well… the avatars need to be lighted to let all look very good. I was questioning at may last blog 3dxChat vs. 3XO how 3XO will solve this. How I understand there might be some standard light settings for avatars at the future like: Three-Point, Portrait, Split, Moonlight, Fireside, Pink Lantern, Red Light District, and Nightclub. The video is showing a standing avatar at the character editor of 3XO. You can see the power of the different light settings and the DAZ3D avatars. It will be really interesing to see how all will work with an running engine. The future will show us.
Regarding the 3DXChat it seems to be there is a new trends how players react ingame. The big ingame group labeled clubs are not that frequently visited like at the recent past. I guess there are a lot of reasons for this. One might be that it is easier to open a room for players cause you can buy rooms at shops. At the past everybody had to learn how to work with the Editor - and this takes a lot of time - even designing a room is a not to underestimate task. On this other side there are rumors saying that lot of players are done with this big-ingame-group thingy. Those rooms are opening with a crew (organisation, greeter, local-chat, bartenders) and even with DJ`s and all those people bring their close friends with to the club. It is not a surprise to see 5 Dancing crews (about 5-10 dancers) which are mostly including fake dancer. A fake dancer is a not active player - sending a second avatar to a place and let the avatar dance for some hours. The Result is a crew - up to 30 people with upto 50 Fake dancers and those “dancers” are not acitve like chatting or interacting with others. And for what? For 50 guests?
There are ingame some changes regarding the behaviour of the 3dxChat community. Everybody needs to be more flexixible I guess. Is it a shorttime trend or should we hope for “the trend is your friend!”?