Logins restricted

i thought login restrictions were for free accounts only?
i have a lifetime account why am i restricted

We all are atm I don't think it matters what sort of aacount you have

Restricted logins can also mean restricted to Lindens only.

Also, you might need to check you have up-to-date payment info on file.

id they decide to go ahead with the restricted logins for paying members then? (not that applies for now as its everyone anyway)

Yup -- same here.

I see no benefit in paying for a membership when non-paying members get to stay in-world. This sucks -- on my way to canceling my membership now! Lindens better start paying more attention to paying members before they are left with only the non-paying folks to troll the sims. I can continue with my business as usual by paying tier to a private sim owner without all of the floating eye sores.

Buh bye!

When you are on a crashing plane it doesn't matter if you have a first class ticket

Everyone is restricted whilst they sort out issues. Check the status page, which they should have a bloody link for on the tool bar by community and support etc.

"Update 2:36 p.m. We have closed logins until the database recovers.

We have identified a database issue which is causing in-world services to be unavailable. Logins, groups, profiles, inventory, teleport, and transactions are affected. Please do not conduct transactions until we have an all clear."

http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2008/06/08/post113/

up-to-date payment info on file??
lifetime account i never have to pay again it was offered 5years ago

Yup. It's Sunday! What do people expect?

It's a technical issue, logins are restricted to Linden Lab employees. It's nothing to do with your account type or status.

The way I see it is that Lindens have more passengers than they can handle. They need to quit over booking and take care of their first class riders!

LOL

okok - what I meant was if the database is borked it doesn't matter who you are it's still borked - all those ppl still ingame can't do anything anyway *grins*

Darn it, I could have got the lifetime membership, but I'd started just before the offer expired, and had no idea I'd be here years later.

Curses, curses, drat drat drat!

Thanks for reminding me.

Yes, but I don't know if you're still considered payment verified if your payment info goes out of date. I know there are several users who had to enter payment info even though they've never needed to actually pay (usually because they were making enough money in-world to pay their fees) so this may apply to lifetimers too.

If they would have put that message on the login screen, it would make more sense.

The message I'm getting is "login failed. Due to high load, logins are temporarily disabled. Please try again in a few minutes".

Rubbish.

Do a little research before making assumptions about non-premium users. Show us the the numbers and statistics that prove we spend and contribute less than you first class type folk. Until you show us the facts, you're talking out of your ass. This effort to invoke some kind of class distinction between premium and basic account holders is old, tiresome and offensive.

I'm getting this message now too. It certainly makes it sound like there is favoritism going on rather than a maintenance-induced total freeze on log-ins. They need to tell us which one it is so people don't get their panties all in a knot.

Do you pay $72 a year to Lindens for your premium account?

I do -- aside from spending loads on purchases and owning businesses.

Excuse me for making assumptions -- but why should I spend $72 more than you for no benefits?

/Me rollseyes

Give me a break - favouritism??? Goodness. Zaphod is right but i didn't want to say it so bluntly. Being a premum member has nothing to do with your place in the queue.

And yes I am a premium member

It was announced quite some time ago that when SL could not handle the numbers logging in then log ins would be restricted to paying members only. Now it appears that paying members are restricted from logging in while free accounts and bots are filling the grid.

My lifetime account is shut out too.

Since I am having internet issues it matter not - but I could log in this morning. Now I have the try back in a few message and yes I too am a premium member- so no- it doesn't matter who you are or what you pay - it is when you decided to attempt the log in.

Good grief someone fix the grid before there's civil war! Too much sun around today or something.

Look, we're all restricted equally!

*Insert entitleistic classist rant here about being a premium member in the VTeam* ...

Meh... Don't mind... Playtime on the beta grid. (^_^)y

Do neither of you remember that a policy was put in place a while ago wherein at times when log-ins were to be restricted, premiums were supposed to be able to get in first? Not that it was ever used, to anyone's knowledge - but that's why some people think that when that error message comes up, they should be able to get in first.

Oh yay $72, cry us a river. I'm a non premium account, yet I spend on average $100 per month on SL, I'm not bragging, but please, explain to us how your so much more a valuable customer than some non-premium account holders?