Now gathering places, like schools, pubs, and beaches, etc, almost always have more avatars so they would have to be regular sims.

Suffice it to say that the bit about not renting open spaces seems a little off the wall. And if someone wants to live with the prim restrictions, why not?

The bottom line seems to be that LL is thinking they can convert all of open spaces into higher paying regualr sims and thus increase their revenue.

As for what I said, I got that straight from SEVERAL Lindens. There is a massive amount of opposition to this bullshit inside the lab. The Cyn/Jack/Harry troika is destroying LL and SL. Time for M to fire them and get people running things who actually care about the customers and understand about running a business.

*sings* It’s beginning to look a lot like spengbab. Diiicks everywhereee~

Hey, listen, the best way to best LL at their own game is to not play. Don’t play it, don’t give them a penny, take what you do have and leave quickly. there are better games to play, and give it a year if you like playing dull, boring, drama filled shit holes called “games” (Oh I’m sorry, I haven’t had the linden kool-aid yet, so I will continue to call it a game.)

snap the fuck out of it and realize that you, as a paying customer, still don’t have rights, Linden Lab doesn’t care about being a fair governing force, they just care about profit. Granted you do have some lindens who are addicted to the game and want to wield power over others and generally abuse their roles, but the company’s main interest is not you. They don’t care if you protest, they honestly don’t. When you protest inworld, it’s pointless and gives Linden Labs the comfort that you’re truly addicted to their little shitty game, and can continue to kick you around like a small defenseless puppy. They know people are addicted, so they will continue to abuse a somewhat captive audience.

I can see some justification on their end, people essentially abused a resource meant for a completely different purpose, and they realized that afterwards. However, the fucked up part is the fact they inadvertently (or intentionally, a strong possibility given their long record of bullshit and shady practices) scammed the people who bought these watered down sims, not laying any ground rules on what they’re meant for, and now they’re going to jack up the pricing on them and fuck over many people who may have been using them for legitimate purposes. Linden Labs obviously won’t do anything to stop doing this, too much new money for them to make in a dying virtual world.

good luck on FIGHTING DA MAN inworld, with LL’s own resources, own prims, and own avatars (they own your avatars, more or less. if you really did own them, you’d be able to save them to your computer)

You’re missing the point.

It has nothing to do with ANYTHING in SL. It’s not about “Open Space Abuse”. It’s not about who does what with the sims. It’s not about if you already paid for it and now you don’t get what you want. It’s not about “talking to them”.

It’s about RL money. LL has problems just like everyone else from the RL market crashes (plural). They Have To Raise Money. It doesn’t matter how. They manufactured some rationale (open space abuse) to justify the particular method they settled on. If open spaces were 100% pure and no abuse anywhere, This Still Would Have Happened. They would just have manufactured a different reason. The reason is money. It’s not about anything else and it never will be — and they CAN’T admit it because at any point in time LL is probably ALWAYS negotiating with a potential buyer.

The only way to stop it is to KNOW how many sim owners you need to persuade to abandon land. Exceed the revenue input of the price increase with revenue lost from abandonment and the policy will change. There is no reason for them to change it otherwise and they won’t.

Complaints mean nothing. Protests mean nothing. Figure out how many have to abandon and that’s the number that has to be reached for this to reverse. Nothing else will do it.

I hope LL will do the descent thing and this time help ppl with getting rid of their os if they cant / wont pay the new tiers anymore, by buying back the land or giving a option to convert free with no costs.

The comment made of us in need to grow up works both ways, as well for us as for LL, they need to be grownups to and understand you can never get a stable and reliable business with steady users / customers if every year a bunch of ppl walk due to mismanagement.

For me, I stopped investing my earned Linden dollars into sl and start to take them out. a small amount less to the sl economy, but hey, at least I don’t pack up my bags and leave completely as many do everything trust is hurt in SL.
We all are in Sl but with RL feelings smiles and most important RL money that me personal don’t mind to open for fair and honest usage.. but not for this kind of game play. this is not WOW were you pay for exp to level, you invest in a dream most of the time, and LL *in my eyes* ruined a lot of good dreams already…

my thoughts, a beta starting sl player
yeah baby WE started this shit ! *grins*

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delusional manboob wet dream

Lol.