Who was it hurting?

So, why should LL be forced to pay people to play this 'game?' Shouldn't it work the other way, you pay to play. Yes, I realize everyone paid at least $9.95 to play, but for SL and LL to succeed, those one-time payers need to give back to the community rather than suck out resources.

There will be a news story on a local television station soon. The story is basically about how to get free money from SL. Before this update, it was possible to buy a $9.95 lifetime subscription, go rate whoring, go host junk events, then on Tuesday, collect a small income. While I don't think LL cares if people make RL money on SL, they need something in return.

Have you ever done anything for yourself? There are lots of sources on the internet for learning PS and Poser, even *FREE* tutorial websites. Or, you can do what I did to learn PS and Poser for absolutely *NO COST*! Go to your local bookstore and read one of the hundreds of books on the programs. They're great. I still take my laptop into a local Barnes'n'Noble and play with a certain 3D app while reading the books. I'm too cheap to pay $60 for those things. Of course, no laptop is needed. You can also find these books at your local library.

Why must someone give you money and give you lessons for nothing in return?

With all due respect, you are still getting your bonus, aren't you? Perhaps not as much, but it is worth more. You are not going to be paid less every week due to inflation. Inflation hurts the poor more than the rich. With inflation, a person with a lot of money to sell on GOM, just sells a lot of money on GOM, and then buys it back for less when they need it. Now their earning might decline, but the value of those earnings stay pretty much the same. On the short term, it will look like the rich get richer, but eventually that isn't the case. Merchants may think, "I'm not going to lower my prices and get less money!", but the truth is, if prices do not adjust to what customers, who now have less money, can pay, they don't make a sale. IMHO.

Money Exchangers do not benefit AT ALL from this.

Inflation happens when people do have more money to pay $300 for an outfit. Then $400. Then $500. That is what inflation IS. That is basic economics. I do agree with one thing though, inflation, as measured by consumer prices, was pretty low, most likely because of the imense growth in population balancing the growth in the money supply. This change makes little sense from a monetary policy point of view.

So basicly you'd like a game where money was no option, you had enough money to buy anything YOU wanted. Therefore what would be the piont in anyone making anything. People would quit creating and SL would turn into a 'pretty' looking chat room for a small population of narrow minded 'gamers' like yourself.

I suppose you are the type that plays The Sims and cheats every farts end so you can afford the things in the catalogue.

People use this game to suit their needs. You use it as a game, others use it as a means to substitute RL bills and others may eventually use it as a way to display a RL business for extra coverage. Well no matter how much anyone complains or discusses the changes, there is nothing we can do about it. We'll learn to live and adjust to it and eventually once the next 'change' raises its head, this issue will be just a little dot in the sky.

Idiots are crawling outta the woodwork, sigh.

Dear <protester>, please brush up on economics. Then, with the wicked powers of the five senses at your disposal, try to find the key immediately above <SHIFT> on the right side of your keyboard.

You see, it really helps people sort through your blockquote, billboard-like rantings to pick apart your flawed logic.

I'd type more, but I've lost interest already.

Enjoy!