If, as Jack points out, the majority of thousands of openspace owners use it in heavy ways, the price hike this time is understandable, to be sure. But, at the same time, I would like to ask Linden Labs to consider much more profoundly the fact so many people have ordered openspaces, not normal regions, and that so many people use it in heavy ways, even renting parcels or houses.
That fact seems to me to prove the following:
1. So many people want their own island to use freely.
2. So many people take the openspace price as reasonable,
in other words, they think the price of normal region too expensive!
As I mentioned at the beginning of this thread, the price hike this time is understandable. But, at the same time, I would like to ask Linden Labs to reconsider the price of normal regions too. If the price of the normal regions be lowered, the measures Linden Labs is going to take will be effective. But if they apply price hike of openspace only, the result will be hazardous. Second Life will no more be attractive to those who would like to create things freely, and they will walk out on it.
I expect Linden Labs will finally decide its pricing taking all these possibilities into consideration, which will be attractive to all the residents and would-be residents of Second Life.