Fairness and financial Equity for current Island owners

The announced price reduction for private islands to 1000 undercuts the investments made in SL by thousands of private island owners who paid 1250 or 1675. It makes our investments a loss, even as the Lindens stand to rake in more bucks.

To even the field, the Lindens should give a 2 month tier holiday to those who paid 1675 and one month tier holiday to those who paid 1250. If all island owners send them a nice note "suggesting" this, perhaps the Lindens will find it in their hearts to not hose us.

Samos

While today's announcement made a concession for those who paid for a regular sim before March 31st there was no such concession for all the open space sims bought by the end of March. In less than 2 weeks those that purchased these sims lost half their value! Support is saying nothing will be done about it. What a rip-off!

Life isn't fair. Welcome to the real world.

Ive seen and heard alot of flack of this suvject. But chris you are very correct. This is a business and they are trying to run it like one. With this price drop I am finally able to afford a sim for myself and my fiance. 1k usd is alot easier on my pocket then almost 1.6k usd.

I can understand the frustration, but it happens all the time. You buy something, and a month later, it's lower in price. Some items and places will credit you the difference if it's with in 2 weeks or so, other places won't.

On the flip side, when the prices went up, why wasn't there a outcry for the people who had bought in the last month to have to pay at least part of the increase?

That's too easy Kokoro. The price drop is too big and too sudden, and the compensation timeframe too sharp and too short.

I bought my first sim just 8 days before the compensation opensim timeframe. So I don't get any compensation, just a clean loss of 675 USD plus VAT. It would have been better if they had used (don't know the English word) sliding (?) table. Like for example:

Weeks before the new sim pricing:

- 1 week before = 100% discount on the next two months tier
- 2 weeks before = 70% discount on the next two months tier
- 3 weeks before = 40% discount on the next two months tier
- 4 weeks before = 10% discount on the next two months tier
- over 4 weeks before = you're shit out of luck

at 15k estates you do realize that the lindens would strike themselves as you would be litterly taking away the pay? I dont think some of you remember there are very hard working and some what fustrated people trying to get this fixed and you want to hurt the employee's pocket's its not there fault, hell it's not really anybody this is a open platform and uses technology that runs 24/7 and guess what it does break. I learnt my less a couple years ago with my blade server and streaming videos and music from it 24/7. it breaks it's just part of life and I love this 2nd life over my first. trust me ask anybody lol

The problem is that any deadline you set always turns out to be "too sharp". Let's see an example:



So now imagine having to explain to someone who bought their sim exactly 15 days ago that they lose a 30% discount for the sake of one day.

Sadly, the "bald man paradox" happens no matter what.

I know, I know! MATH!
We'll calculate the % discount based on the minute!