Nasty tier rumour

Apologies if already posted but im getting asked if any truth in tier payments being increased by 50% next year? It sounds too ridiculous to be true but well this is SL/LL....

Some increase accompanied by extra prim allowances maybe....loads more prims....

Are you referring to the Open Spaces issue? If so, it's true, there's plenty of chat about this on previous forums.

In the specific case of OpenSpace sims this is sadly true. Costs will rise from $75 per month to $95 per month in January and then $125 er month in July.

If you own mainland or a parcel on a full prim private estate then you will be unaffected.

Some rental companies are absorbing the costs and others are passing them on to customers. Others are just going out of business and closing all their sims down.

I'd be pretty surprised if they up the prim limits: rezzing performance is sucking wind already--a fate in store for any alternate grids with 3X prim limits that last long enough for access network scaling to become a real consideration.

I do cringe a bit whenever residents ask for a more rational tier structure without such nonlinear jumps. Not that it isn't broken, but I'm more than a little nervous whenever LL's attention drifts to pricing of anything. I can too easily see them patting themselves on the back for making tier "more flexible" by charging everybody a flat US$5/mo/512 or something equally disastrous. But, hey, we asked for it.

I don't think anyone would pay that amount, unless they start a business to cover the insane costs.

I don't like paying over 100 US Dollars every month for a small piece of baked air.
If LL intends to have everybody sign off permanently, then they should keep going like this.

Been living under a rock lately, hmm ?

Another price change now would be a disaster. I think even LL knows it this time.

Also a mainland tier change could upset the delicate ballance between estates and the mainland. One small change could make mainland more financially atractive and close a lot of estates in the process.

The eye of Sauron comes to mind as it sweeps over the barren and desolate land of Mordor, in search of Frodo and the Ring.

I, too, was curious about the rumors. I know about the Open Sim increases (being hit hard by that one), but the rumors about overall tier increases are quite prevalent. One post I've seen elsewhere suggested full tier would go from $295 to $395 by the end of '09. That would, I think, essentially cripple most small business owners and put an end to any "mom and pop" type places. Come on Mr. Linden (ANY Linden)...say it isn't so!

Anything predicted to happen "by the end of '09" is wild speculation. I don't like to predict what LL will do tomorrow.

Do you seriously expect any sort of definite answer from a Linden, hahahahahaha.

by the end of 2009 full sims will still cost the same, but you will be limited to 3750 prims with a strict script limit, textures over 256 x 256 will be banned and each sim will only allow 5 avatars at the same time. each full sim will share the same core as 3 other full sims.

Psychic?

Agreed.

By the end of 2010 isn't too wild, though. The openspace tier bump was announced almost exactly 2 years after the private island bump. I'd bet, as somewhat-wild but not totally-wild speculation, that we'll see something else happen within 2 years.


Totally untrue!! It's 67%.

If anything, the biggest thing to drive this rumor, for whatever it is, is how comfortable the SL community has gotten to calling all these payments "tier". "Tier" is the tiered payment method of mainland ownership allowances that reduces in overall cost as the amount of total land you own. (^_^)

But estates and islands are charged directly by setup and maintenance fees with no tier method in place. And, it's leased out by the estate owner based on whatever fixed recurring fee they decide to charge. Yet... Most people still call it "tier". (=_=)

End result... Mainlanders get these messages second-hand and "sky is falling" mode gets activated. (>_<

I'm in a few helper groups... I've lost count of the times I've had to say "No, tier is not changing, it only applies to Open Space sim setup and maintenance fees." (>_<

Ugh. (T_T)

Ask LL for an annual lease Let us know what they say.

GAH!!! I would LOVE to see that payment method!!! XD

This rumour is probably more likely related to grandfathered sims, with some prominent land owners selling them now as they hold extra value it has got tongues wagging that grandfathered status will be ended.

#6...not a rock just VERY busy reorganising and building for Xmas rather than reading copious forums
Fully aware of the Openspace issue but this question was re mainland and asked of me by someone that does frequent Help Island guiding newbies so wanted to back up my 'rubbish' reply lollll

Agreed more prims would lag, just a shame there isn't the capability to make SL be all it can really be when you have to decide what you have to mothball to put up the Xmas decorations...a dog is for life but gets the chop at Xmas the 32 prims are needed for the grotto lolllll

OK, I am reporting you to animal welfare ))

If they flatten it out, it had better be at the discounted rate.

@OP: Prokofy asked this question about mainland to Jack Linden recently and their conversation is on Prokofy's blog. Summary is that there are no plans to increase mainland tier.

An excerpt:

[21:39] Jack Linden: no plans to change mainland prices

and LL never misleads its customers either

If LL have no plans that they care to share publically then imo nobody has any better information and that was the thrust of the OP's question.

They don't intentionally mislead people. They just change their mind all the time.