What started out as a monster of a shop is about to collapse under the weight of its own drama. The Scion Chicken developer, Sion Zaius, has begun changing the coding in his development, causing many Digital Chicken Farmers much distress.
In case you have no idea what Sion Chickens are, they’re annoying little scripty things that not only crow and chirp all over the place, they breed and even eat – and you have to purchase the food for from from – you guessed it – the developer. The fun part is, you can breed the chickens for special “ancient” eggs, from which determination on what’s ancient and what’s not pretty much just rely on the color of the egg itself. Ancient eggs sell for undeterminable amounts on the Black Chicken Market in SL. (Okay, I made that last part up.)
Oh, yeah – the chickens are also physical, and will die if knocked about, not fed, taken into inventory, fall off the edge of your skybox, etc, etc….
The first major Sion chicken drama was that the Lindens were deleting chickens from Mainland sims because they were too laggy. Not long after, Sion Zaius released a “lagless” (ha!) version of his chickens. This newest development in Chicken Drama revolves around a particular Chicken Mover, a scripted box that is meant to allow chicken farmers to move their precious squawkers around.
This newly programed transfer box was meant to delete all “laggy-scripted” chickens from the previous version. It not only deleted those, it deleted current version, ancients, …. pretty much anything you put in the box, it deleted.
Sion got called out on it by one of his customers:
You have been reported for fraud. People lost thousands of Lindens yesterday b/c of the reboxing panic started when you decided to put out proteggtors that intentionally deleted ancient eggs. Deleting unupdated ones is fine however the batch that deleted everyones ancients regardless of update cost alot of people alot of money when for whatever reason they had to rebox their ancient eggs they bought and they poofed.
You didn’t inform anyone of this decision as you never send out prior notices of updates. So we had no warning. this is a totally unethical practice. And quite close if not crossing the line of fraud, since all business in SL is real businesses.
I have spoken with my colleges (we are a group of Insurance and Fraud Attorneys) This is pursuable. ANd unless you make amends to all those who lost money yesterday and make a public statement to all chicken owners yourself (not via Shammy) This matter will be pursued in the RL legal system.
Aeryn Rau.
His response?
“sionChicken food set for breeders: Message of the Day: All sales of SionLabs will be stopped at 00:00 until Aeryn Rau has apologized for attempting to blackmail Sion Labs.â€
YAYYYYY Professional responses FTW! With much Linden Dollar comes great responsibility, my friend!
If you want to keep up with more Sion Chicken Drama, click over here: http://ohmydarlinclementine.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/chicken-drama/
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Clem! you’ve made the big time!
This has been a fun drama to watch.. luckily for me chickens are a fun thing to watch and just hang around and relax. No special breeding for me or real special chickens so this hasnt really effected me, i feel bad for those it did though.
I have chicken coops but no chickens. Thought about buying some but after seeing this it’s not going to happen.
Wooo Clemmy! Hehehe
I’ve had fun with my chickens. They kept me in SL when I was ready to pack it up and move it out. I can’t in good conscious continue to give my money to a person who operates like this though. Now since this post, he has sent an “apology” notecard and retracted the food hostage message, but still. Eh.
All I wanted to do with my post was provide the whole story as it was happening so people would have clear and concise facts.
Now I must go kill my chickens. o.O
What a wanker.
Glad I never got involved with the Chickens.
BBQ TIME!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y8H7-MTqrg
I am SO glad I did not get into this chicken thing.
they sound fun, I may buy some to check it out
I really don’t understand these chickens, and I get that people are upset. But pulling the “I know lawyers!” card? Really?
lol @ Clementine. *passesyousomeflourandoil*
Don’t forget the BBQ sauce too please!
@ A Nony Mouse – everyone on the interwebs knows lawyers, you should know that by now
This is my favorite part: “I have spoken with my colleges (we are a group of Insurance and Fraud Attorneys)”
aside from the typo, the ‘Fraud Attorneys’ made me laugh. Yes, even attorneys with their high salaries get angry over a few thousand lindens, or 20 bucks in real life.
He can apologize all he wants. I gave my chickens the ax this morning. We should have an in world BBQ. hehe
I am going to make a huge omelet with all the eggs in my inventory, if anyone would like some, let me know.. I’ll make to order
.. not sure about my chickens yet, don’t know if I see a bbq in their future .. the whole thing is a cluster-cluck for sure.
http://welovechicken.com/
What’s a few feathers shared amongst friends?
You should follow the drama that goes on just in the groups alone. More tyrants and drama queens than anywhere else in SL.
I’m totally up for a Sion Chicken BBQ. Anyone have Antie’s grill?
I can understand that that Aeryn Rau chick is upset, as is many others, but the way she approached him was kind of stupid; and offensive for him im sure. I understand from the post he made some bad decisions but contacting a business owner and threatening them right off the bat like that is ridiculous IMO. To me thats like when people contact a creator and demand a refund instead of opening their mind to the possibility the faulty product could be fixed or replaced.. Its offensive.
Of course, i dont know the whole background story to this or what Sion has been doing so perhaps Aeryn Raus response was needed. But if not, she could have just asked what he planned on doing for the loss he has caused many customers.
Hmm this kind of reminds me of what is going on with those TMC gift card systems that no one can use anymore that were $52 USD a piece.
We have the grill Tenshi, right out on the deck
and picnic tables and adirondack chairs.
Hey Blah, pray tell what is happening with those TMC storecard systems?? *gets the popcorn maker ready*
Okay, I found a thread on XstreetSL which talks about a store card system bug which causes cards to ‘reload’ their values on weaker servers when they reset themselves, or when you transfer them, the value is reset, is this what you are talking about… https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=92939&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
just an fyi, ppl have been asking for their issues to be addressed for months. i finally today got a notecard from sion himself after sending one daily for 3 weeks. until serious action was taken, we were told “he works on HIS time line NOT anyone elses and he will NOT be addressing issues til he’s ready” (from his CR rep)
the above story is not actually what happened, but close enough, lol.
off to look at my glowy eggs
xoxo, caLLie
Kind of…
There have been brazilian (Surprise, surprise) copybotters who have went around to many popular shops who use the system, cloned the cards (it also kept the TMC creators name on them), and go around selling them. For instance, they will sell a card worth $1,000 for only $200. So a customer can get $1,000L worth of product in your store by paying the copybotter only $200. So both the customer and coybotter walk away happy and the store owner gets nothing.
Many shops have been ripped off this way and many have taken down the system because of it.
Supposedly sales on the TMC system have been stopped until a more stable version is made.
@ BYB
Thanks for the thread link, I only read the first page.
Thats sad.
So a merchant tries to be accomodating by paying $52 for a secure gift card system so their customers can give gift cards out, the system ends up in the midst of a security glitch and said merchant has either been ripped off, or has their doors wide opon to a huge rip-off frenzy, merchant gives customers a week to use the card, and gets shit for it? Nice. Do the people commenting even realize how serious of an issue that bug is?!
Everyone I know pulled the system right when they found out about A) the bug. and B) the card copybotters. Yeah it sucks for those who now can not use the card, but such glitches could run someone out of business. Unlimited free product to anyone with the card.
Hopefully everything is fixed soon so merchants can offer the service again and those with the card can use it.
I’ve been asked a couple of times while shopping in stores that use that system if I wanted to buy a gift card at reduced price, all the while I thought that they were shop staff.
Blah wrote “Hopefully everything is fixed soon so merchants can offer the service again and those with the card can use it.”
I doubt any system can be 100% secure. There are always people trying to crack these things, and with LSL code its much easier.
*whew* I am soo glad I did not buy chickens, and passed up on the TMC card system in January.