Predictions for a semi-new year...

I am going to make some predictions for SL in the new year. I feel that it isn't too late for them as long as 2010 still has that new year smell. But, I can't wait too long since someone has already eaten fast food in here.

The crystal ball and tarot cards have spoken! Here are some things I foresee for Second Life:

• LL will finally realize that it has hit a sweet spot as far as reaching the females aged 18-49 demographic. They'll give up on trying to get male teen gamers to sign up and start advertising during Oprah and in Elle magazine.
  

• Premium account holders finally get some additional benefits including a special Linden Bear named 'Preemie' and log-in screens that compliment the account holder ("I'll bet you are even prettier than your avatar!").  FINALLY!!!
  

• The breedable pet market will collapse into chaos as animals start mating cross species leaving everyone with farms full of incredibly horny, taupe-ish colored chickpigbunnyturtles.

•  The trend toward deeper and increasingly squashed breasts will result in one breasted avatars. Just one giant breast. Still two nipples though.

•  Philip comes back to LL full time after the fun of telling people the Love Machine is, "...in his pants!" wears off. 

• LL will continue its efforts to enhance the first hour experience by actually assigning parts in role play sims. Basic accounts will be restricted to non-speaking parts and being in crowd scenes. Payment on file accounts will get sassy best friend parts and characters who die in fight scenes and hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold roles. Premium members get 'leading man/woman', 'glittery vampire' and 'grizzled cop one week away from retirement' roles.

• The Linden Home program goes belly up as SLasbestos is discovered in the construction materials.  

Yup. That's it. I couldn't find out anything about mainland prices or concurrency levels, the Stroker v. Linden Lab lawsuit or even the future of day of the week sales. Enjoy the year though!