Balanced proposal

some days passed...

it is now pretty obvious that LL wil not change its mind. Daring to call a "balanced proposal" a second proposal worse than the first...

I also begin to see people fleeing off SL, closing their sims even not waiting the deadline in February. Individuals are fleeing, but also land barons, and this is a very serious alarm ringing. Land Barons were the only real business in SL (I mean allowing to have a real income) and it is striking that they leave. This is clearly because LL no more appears as a reliable business partner.

By trying to "attract companies" with high flown promises, LL in fact repelled them with actual gross mismanagement.

It is really absurd to expell the educators and universities, because they are the seed of future residents and future in world activities. But they have small budgets, and cannot afford the new fees...

It is really absurd to expell creators, because behind the artist, pixie, dragon or furrie may hide a professor, a scientist, a high civil servant, see a business owner (as I often noted), that is all the people who are likely to build later those business meetings LL is fond of.

It is especially a great shame to expell from SL all the disabled people who were able to have here a normal social life. (the price hike affects them in first).

But is there any use to post messages in this forum?? I am sure nobody in the LL staff reads it (or it is "analysed" in terms of pro or anti)

Since two years I am in world, I was hotly aproving LL, especially into its difficult moves such as expelling casinos, child porn, add farms... and was thinking that the anti-linden speeches were just hype. But now that LL expells all the creators, all the poorest residents, I can no longer support its policy.


So winter is coming on the fully useable virtual worlds, until the tools for them reappear somewhere else.
They WILL reappear, because it is just necessary.

Well thought through proposal!! - which is more than what LL did when it..

1) priced Openspaces in the first place and created this mess all by themselves...
2) met a market need and underestimated demand...
3) had no mechanism (tighter prim or traffic limits or similar...) to maintain profitability...
4) had a new CEO flex his muscles to 'fix' a problem (damn residents!) and protect the interests of those to cream the millions off an IPO....
5) botched the fix, which is now going to reduce revenues from openspaces more than generate more profit from mainland/islands... residents already had the choice and decided *not*

OK, whoever the MBA types at LL are - time to own up, address the residents concerns, keep the customer base happy, and allow your potential investors to breathe easier that you guys ACTUALLY can run a sustainable business without destroying your PRODUCT.

Carpetbaggers keep out!

Thanks Elijah for the message.

At first, I strongly doubt that the people expelled from openlands will go to mainland. It is quite simply not the same thing, and mainland cannot offer what any private estates offer: a covenant, making warant that our beach paradise or flowery den will not have one day a night club or square ugliness just besides. Most people expelled from openlands will just leave, by lack of real alternatives.

At second, there is no need to "regulate the market" of sims, no more than there is a need to regulate the number of phone lines or internet sites. This is because what we pay for in SL is not actual land, but CPU power and memory space. And, countrary to real land which is in limited quantity, CPU and memory space can be expanded at will, with just adding other computers. It is probably a rootless reasoning of this kind which led the new direction to its absurd decision.