Warm Winter Nights

Earlier this year LL started a new Land policy which included the Openspace SIMs. At a buying cost of USD$250 and a monthly tier of USD$75, many SIM owners started to buy those to join their anchor islands, mainly due to demands from their rentors.

Now LL has done it again.

Like they state in their blog post “Rather than being employed as open areas like ocean with little or no content and traffic, the majority are being rented out to residents looking for a place to live. Because they were never intended for that level of load this is causing problems. For some people this has meant a less than great experience with performance fluctuations. The overuse of Openspaces has also put additional strain on some of our network and database infrastructure at a much higher ratio than is reflected in the current pricing. So higher traffic to and from the servers along with heavier demands on the asset server, both of which impact the overall experience people have inworld.”

So what are they doing to decrease the heavier demands on traffic and servers? Nothing.

So what are they doing to just ruin everyone’s fun? Everything.

The tier prices will increase 66% (yes you read well S-i-x-t-y  S-i-x percent) i.e. plus USD$50 per month and the acquisition price will be of USD$375.

An increase of USD$50 per Openspace will be unbearable for most of both the residents and landowners (we have a worldwide economy crisis guys, remember?) and I’m sure this is going to make many leave SL for good due to disappointment and many beautiful places disappear, thus making this world of ours poorer and sadder.

I will stay here waiting to see what LL comes up next.