Looks like the stipend payout was down 38,000,000L for the month of August. Divide that by 300L and you get 126,667 less premium accounts in August than July.
Is this just a glitch, or the beginning of the end?
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Uvas Umarov
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08-31-2007 09:03
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Raymond Figtree
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08-31-2007 09:07
Looks like the stipend payout was down 38,000,000L for the month of August. Divide that by 300L and you get 126,667 less premium accounts in August than July. Is this just a glitch, or the beginning of the end?  _____________________
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Cristalle Karami
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08-31-2007 09:11
That is a glitch. There aren't even 120,000 premium accounts.
Some people get 500, some people get 400, some get 300, some get 50.... who knows. But no way in hell has there been more than 120,000 premium accounts. |
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Ceera Murakami
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08-31-2007 09:12
That's likely to be all the Casino owners, leaving Premium status in droves. No need to pay for Premium if you can't run that Casino on the mainland any more, or anywhere else in SL.
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errUh Oh
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08-31-2007 09:12
i downgraded to basic yesterday and i had to get a ticket from support to do it because it refused to let me downgrade through the website
im also liquidating all my assets in world through free yardsale areas and i dont gamble at all. Im just tired of being bullied by Linden Lab |
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CCTV Giant
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08-31-2007 09:13
Not necessarily. Stipends before November 5 of 2006 were 400L per week. I have seen somewhere also that stipends may have been at 500 per week but i could be hallucinating. Nevertheless, the numbers are still large however skewed as a result.
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Kitty Barnett
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08-31-2007 09:14
Of course it could have nothing to do with the fact that July had 5 Tuesdays and August only had 4
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Oryx Tempel
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08-31-2007 09:15
Looks like the stipend payout was down 38,000,000L for the month of August. Divide that by 300L and you get 126,667 less premium accounts in August than July. Is this just a glitch, or the beginning of the end? Yeah but if you divide 38 million by 300 (roughly) and THEN BY FOUR because there are FOUR weeks in a month, you get 31666 fewer accounts. That's a big difference. _____________________
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Cristalle Karami
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08-31-2007 09:15
Here's the recent premium numbers:
2006 November 42,430 2006 December 49,776 2007 January 57,661 2007 February 66,838 2007 March 75,714 2007 April 83,063 2007 May 89,845 2007 June 94,607 2007 July 88,797 I'm going to guess that August will be down to 80k, give or take 1-2k. |
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Ashlynn Dawn
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08-31-2007 09:16
Not necessarily. Stipends before November 5 of 2006 were 400L per week. I have seen somewhere also that stipends may have been at 500 per week but i could be hallucinating. Nevertheless, the numbers are still large however skewed as a result. They were 500L a week....I still get 500L weekly, as do any that were premium before 6-6-06 , I believe. No hallucination. _____________________
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CCTV Giant
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08-31-2007 09:18
They were 500L a week....I still get 500L weekly, as do any that were premium before 6-6-06 , I believe. No hallucination. Damn I thought I was getting a post collegiate freebie dohhhhhhh  |
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Alan Bamboo
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08-31-2007 09:18
2007 January 57,661
2007 February 66,838 2007 March 75,714 2007 April 83,063 2007 May 89,845 2007 June 94,607 2007 July 88,797 http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxbDc4B2FH96kmmllbXG0Ew&gid=6 |
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Markubis Brentano
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08-31-2007 09:20
Not necessarily. Stipends before November 5 of 2006 were 400L per week. I have seen somewhere also that stipends may have been at 500 per week but i could be hallucinating. Nevertheless, the numbers are still large however skewed as a result. I get 500L per week...they also give me free supplies of metamucil and Ben Gay for my cranky old knees.  |
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Kitty Barnett
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08-31-2007 09:21
Yeah but if you divide 38 million by 300 (roughly) and THEN BY FOUR because there are FOUR weeks in a month, you get 31666 fewer accounts. That's a big difference. Which is 1600 at the L$500 rate, or 2000 at the L$400 rate, or 2666 at the L$300 rate. Or simply 16,000 pre-July 2006 basic accounts who went on vacation and haven't logged on to qualify for their L$50/week stipends. If there are less premiums, it's only going to by a minor degree. |
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CCTV Giant
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08-31-2007 09:23
I get 500L per week...they also give me free supplies of metamucil and Ben Gay for my cranky old knees. Ya know I have been noticing it takes longer for the ole xcite to warm up...... Screw Casinos -- I am going to develop SLiagra *starts counting the dough* heehee |
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Kira Cuddihy
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08-31-2007 09:28
/me taps her finger on her cheek and wonders what a "premium zone" is. Haven't heard about that one yet. Please explain if you care too.
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Atashi Toshihiko
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08-31-2007 09:29
I think a more-telling economic statistic is that in August, Supply Linden has only needed to print 40,000,000 new L$ in order to keep the currency stable. In July, they printed four times as many new L$s.
This means to my simple-math-mind that in August, the demand for L$ was only 1/4th what it was in July. A lot fewer people buying L$ means a lot fewer people spending L$. The other numbers haven't changed too much - the number of new groups created or files uploaded, that's not a big difference. The number of land parcels listed in search, that's gone down a little, about 10% roughly? -Atashi _____________________
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Isablan Neva
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08-31-2007 09:33
It's August. People on vacation, kids getting ready to go back to school. SL goes through a significant change in demographics at this time of year. One month doesn't tell the tale - three months in a row tells the tale.
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Oryx Tempel
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08-31-2007 09:41
Well all this math so early in the morning is really not good for me. I'm sure somewhere, one of you is right, but I can't think that straight yet...
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Slaton Ewing
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08-31-2007 09:42
Of course it could have nothing to do with the fact that July had 5 Tuesdays and August only had 4 .Don't go bringing rational logical explainations into a good Friday thread. |
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Cristalle Karami
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08-31-2007 09:42
The point is, there has never been 120,000 accounts. Ever. It's wrong. End of story.
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Raynor Hammerer
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08-31-2007 09:45
Of course it could have nothing to do with the fact that July had 5 Tuesdays and August only had 4 .Yes, seasonal adjustment is a useful thing ... _____________________
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Nina Stepford
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08-31-2007 09:45
is this so true anymore though? sl has internationalised to a great degree.
i agree one month does not indicate much though. It's August. People on vacation, kids getting ready to go back to school. SL goes through a significant change in demographics at this time of year. One month doesn't tell the tale - three months in a row tells the tale. _____________________
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Raymond Figtree
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08-31-2007 09:47
i downgraded to basic yesterday and i had to get a ticket from support to do it because it refused to let me downgrade through the website im also liquidating all my assets in world through free yardsale areas and i dont gamble at all. Im just tired of being bullied by Linden Lab _____________________
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Ashlynn Dawn
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08-31-2007 09:50
All those returning to school this month or next have gone back to basic, who needs 300L a week when you have homework, sheesh.
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