Simplify The Issue: "Pay More Get More"

I have only one true root issue with this entire turn of events, rather than nit pick at every aspect of their financial decisions.

-Linden Labs are making us pay more, without us getting more in return.
-NEVER is it good business to make a customer pay something for nothing.

What is this extra money paying for? A performance boost is mostly non-tangible and may not even exist as far as we know. (Not worth $50 more in my opinion.) If they increase the prim count and lift the usage recommendations in exchange for this cost increase, then there is no argument and I would gladly pay it.

What features or changes would you think would warrent the price increase? What would you want in return for paying more for your Open SIMs?
Stay on topic.

It was the citizens that built SL into what it was. LL is only a glorified ISP base and have been cashing in on OTHER PEOPLE's talent and time. They have gotten so used to getting money for other peoples sweat that they now think it is owed to them.

This entire thing comes down to ONE THING. Greed!

It will be hard to convince me that this was not preplanned from the start. Get people to invest money there, so they will be hesitant to leave (This was the prim hikes, price cuts), then slam it to them. They would NOT have increased the prim count if they could not support it....even LL is not that stupid.

I would say that rather than throwing good money after bad, we put up with OLG growing pains and make it into a worthy competitor to SL. Capitalism is a FINE thing for a consumer, I think you will see vast improvements in customer service and pricing should OLG be built into another SL, which we CAN DO.

That... is off topic. It is your choice whether or not to pay for Linden Lab's services, but some of us might try to make ends meet where our reputation is still prodominant. Personally I have yet to make a decision, and could end up in OLG. So lets see...

I asked a question.

What features or changes would you think would warrent the price increase? What would you want in return for paying more for your Open SIMs?

These are questions that derive answers that can help LL come up with a compromise.

LL has been saying that people have not been paying for what they're using and that's what is driving the price increase.


Yes.. So many people saw that they could take more than they were offered and didn't think twice about it.

The price was originally fair. Here's the math.

Normal SIM = $300 for 15,000 prims

$300 / 4 = $75
15,000 prims / 4 = 3750 prims

Therefore, you originally got what you paid for in prims. IF this price increase happens, it will not be fair unless they increase the prim count.

$300 / $125 = 2.4
15,000 prims / 2.4 = 6250 prims

Therefore, this will only be a fair price increase if the prims are readjusted to 6250.

Forget what they say. It's facetious. They bought hardware on our dime, now they want rid of us so they can retask it and sell it again. The particulars are a distraction. If the problem was use, they could address use by limiting prims, limiting the number of avatars, limiting script use.

Instead, they attack most the people who abuse the least, namely people who do not profit from their openspaces. You can't reason this out using their reasons, because their reasons are given in bad faith. You ahve to look behind them.

The fact remains, if you are being forced to pay considerably more, you should be getting more in return. That is the business model of all companies that provide a product or service. Personally, I demand more prims. A performance boost could only exist because they say it does (and possibly lying), and doesn't nessessarilly improve someone's experiance in the game. Certainly not worth the extra $50 a month.

I'll take the extra prims and hardware performace, then I'll pay the fees. Otherwise... I'll just use SL as a chat program from now on and take my serious business elsewhere. $300 a month was already quite excessive for a full-sized SIM, and since a senseable cheaper alternative isn't available through Linden Labs we're forced to find refuge with other companies entirely.

Rather than complain, I'll just leave my conclusion as this:
"I'll pay extra if you give me extra. If I have to pay extra for nothing, you get nothing from me."