In a Meeting Jack says: [11:51] Jack Linden shouts: To be clear, we don't think that the change of use is a bad thing, we added extra utility to Openspaces ahead of seeing the popularity or net effects, and yes that is difficult because there are some that use them for empty space and many more that do not. So this isn't about stopping that change of use, it's about recognising the extra costs we incur, and the extra value residents are getting too.
You added extra utility ahead of seeing popularity & net effects? How could that be? You were planning for a change in use of these sims??
But Jack... you also said this...
"Openspaces are being used about twice as much as we expected, in other words being loaded with double the content/avatar load than we’d expect for a region that is supposed to be light use.
Rather than being employed as open areas like ocean with little or no content and traffic, the majority are being rented out to residents looking for a place to live. Because they were never intended for that level of load this is causing problems."
Which is it Jack?? You NEVER intended?? but you planned for??
Why did you double the prims available on these sims before releasing them under the new terms Jack?
THis post appeared in the blog and I think it is probably a good analogy of what is really the issue and I would like to see you address it...
"Hi Jack, i think you need to state exactly the reason of WHY you proposed this price increase, because i think that most of us believed (initially) that it was because of a misuse/abuse of the OpenSpace simulator, while it is not.
It’s not a “performance” problem because we both know that these SIM are running on virtual machines, and you can actually force (CPU and bandwidth) to each of them, so if you assign to each VM 1/16 (6.6%) of the total server resources, any OpenSpace *WON’T* affect the other ones on the same server. It is pretty easy to do and it’s the basics of how a shared server works (plenty of virtual server out there), and im sure you guys there have an adeguate skill to know how it works.
I know why you can’t do that, because you are trying to optimize the costs/usage per machine, overbooking them (assuming that each instance of each VM will never use it’s max power), but other methods exists to resolve this issue: it’s a resource allocator with load balancing (each VM would be throttled to its allocated resource if the others on the same machine asks for their “power”).
So it’s better that you say the “truth” with more efficient words than your previous posts. Example: we found that these Open Space simulators worth MORE than the price that they are currently sold (because they are more attractive than we were expeting), so we decided to increase their price.
If you had used these words from the start i think that the ppl would have understood and react in a different way, i’m not saying that we would have accepted it, but at least you wouldn’t have passed as a “liar” (because of a misunderstood).
Anyway this won’t solve the problem, the problem here (imho) is just because u didn’t decided to grandfather the current owner, forcing em to accept a new rule or loose their investiment (and setup price) otherwise the problem would never existed.
Cheers."