Actually SL has over 3 million accounts right now (and about 300k that have logged in for more than an hour in the past month) with around 10-25k users online at a given time. Some people happen to make a living out of SL (Anshe Chung is a German who has about 250,000USD worth in SL and has an office of workers in China to help run her real estate business in SL). Also IBM has an island or two in SL that they use for research and virtual meetings. This isn't a game to everyone.
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