Linden Lab Announces New Gifts For Plus, Premium, And Premium Plus Residents

 

 A few days ago in the official blog, Linden Lab announced that Seraphim, a leading shopping group and website, had released their next quarterly set of gifts for residents with paid accounts, Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus. 

 

The wait is over! The newest round of SeraPlus Quarterly Gifts is here, packed with exciting virtual gifts from some of Second Life’s most celebrated creators — and available exclusively to Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus members.

 

 
The items include skin fatpacks, footwear, clothing, accessories, hair, Home and Garden items, and a "full interactive item." To get them, if you have a paid account, head over to the SeraphimSL sim at (122/154/34) and get them at the display area. You can get this set from now to October 26. After that it will no longer be available. 

 

To read more, Click Here to check out the blog page.

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

 

Linden Lab Partners With Shopping Website Seraphim For "Membership Mania" Perk, More Profile Pics For All Residents, Expands AI Character Designer

 

 On Monday, Linden Lab made what it called it's final "Membership Mania" announcement. One was for all residents regardless whether they had basic or paid accounts. The picks section of resident profiles, used to "highlight ... your favorite inworld places, businesses, and personal memories." will soon have the maximum number expanded from ten to twenty.

 

Due to overwhelming community demand, we’re increasing profile picks across all membership tiers—including Basic members! Previously, residents could only create up to 10 profile picks to showcase their favorite locations, snapshots, and memories. Over the next couple of weeks, we’ll be expanding to allow for even more picks – soon all members can create up to 20 picks!

 

As stated, the expansion will take place sometime between now and about March 10.

 

Another perk should please some Paid Account residents who are shopping fans. For their latest perk, they partnered with the shopping website Seraphim. 

We’re thrilled to announce SeraPlus, an all-new exclusive perk in partnership with Second Life’s premier independent shopping site, Seraphim! This exciting new benefit will soon be available only to Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus members and brings you exclusive, high-quality virtual items from top Second Life creators.

Beginning in April, paid account residents will be able to claim gifts in the Seraphim sim. They will be there once a month, "Four times a year, members will receive a curated box filled with exclusive virtual creations ... For each of the remaining eight months of the year, members will receive one additional exclusive item ..."

They also expanded access to the AI Character Designer

 

Plus, Premium, and Premium Plus members can now access this innovative tool to craft and customize virtual characters with intelligent responses, unique personalities, and immersive roleplay capabilities. It’s an exciting way to enhance community-building, storytelling, and social interaction in Second Life. 

 

 The Lab offered this tutorial video, and a page with more information (here).

 

Currently, the only option for the Character Purpose is "personal companion," for accompanying you as you go about inworld, with "public character," designed for roles such as greeter and shop assistant, described as "coming soon."

 

Linden Lab first introduced the AI Character Designer in December, but soon suspended it after some residents expressed concerns, such as privacy worries and concerns residents might get in trouble for what their AI characters were saying.

 

To see the blog post in full, Click Here. 

 

Bixyl Shuftan 

Black Friday Sales

In real life, "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving, has been the traditional start of the Christmas shopping season for decades. Although the term originally was used to describe the car and foot traffic to the stores, it has come to mean the common belief the day is when most stores have made enough money in the year to turn a profit. The event is commonly perceived as stores being packed with shoppers in search of bargains and "must buy" toys, sometimes shoving and even fighting one another. Beginning a couple years ago sales made during the day began to diminish due to retailers running sales earlier in the month and more shoppers spreading their time throughout December and November. But the day still is symbolic to shoppers.

Mylie Foxclaw discovered on seraphimsl.com, a website about sales and shopping in Second Life, a list of Second Life stores with "Black Friday" sales with items marked 30%, 40%, or 50 percent off. The list involves a variety of stores from bedroom, to dungeon, to weddings, to armor and swords, and more.

There is one other store holding Black Friday sales, Furry Fashion.  Until Midnight tonight SL time, there will be a 50 percent off sale in the main store, though only the main store, "Pay full price to get HALF YOUR MONEY BACK instantly. This Sale includes FF Main Store Vendors owned by Amethyst Crystal, Alexiel, Magnolia and Becky Doulton, Skyler Glasswing!"

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Furry/155/208/27

"Shop 'til you drop," or at least go Away From Keyboard.

Bixyl Shuftan