OpenLife Credits are working
(Via olx.cybertechnews.org)
3DX, the company that owns the OpenLife Grid, announced that credit purchases took another step to full implementation. As many know, before people would use the “contact us” page on the OpenLife site and 3DX manually filled the orders.
Today though credits took the next step in purchasing with semi-automatic means. No, that doesn’t mean a gun is needed to get them delivered. According to Sakai’s post:
“Initially we’re releasing the system in a ’semi-automated’ which means the last step of the purchase process which we know as ‘approval’ before the accounting server picks up your order and sends it to you in world. We will ‘watch’ this process over the next week to be sure everything is functioning correctly. So we’ve inserted a small ‘extra’ step where Openlife staff will tick approve your order before the allowing the Accounting server to send you the credits.
Why? We just want to be sure that everything is working as it should be before letting the system continue on without us checking each order.”
The present system could mean waits up to about 15 minutes for your in world balance to show while the staff monitors and approves each transaction. There will be about a 12 hour window open for purchases over the next week or so. After approximately a week of successful testing on that system Sakai expects they “will be able to remove this last manual step and restore it to a fully automated process.”
Early reports on the forums and from sources in world appear quite positive. Gumby Roffo reported his transaction took only approximately a minute through his PayPal account. He also successfully sent credits across regions to another avatar and the balance showed instantly. So it looks like this is all heading in the right direction.
CTN reported earlier that OpenLife was taking Credits into use.
Good grief don’t let this turn out to be yet another pyramid scheme – as in “if enough people buy enough of these credits, the creators dash and run for the hills with the real world money it represents”….