"reduced stipends for premium accounts created after July 21, 2006"

Ok, maybe I did not read enough or the wrong thing. If a person signs up for a preimum account after 21 July 2006 their weekly stipends will be about 400 lindens a week.

Now I have had my preimum account since November 2005. I am due to renew my preimum account in November 2006. When I renew, what will be my weekly stipends?

500 lindens per week as my original contract or 400 lindens a week because I am renewing contract?

If I continue to renew my preimum membership each year will I always get 500 lindens per week as my original preimum membership benefits stated.

I do not believe I saw that spelled out anywhere.

Will a linden please clarify this! PLEASE!

You will not be impacted George. This is about when your account was created, not how often you pay.

"New Premium accounts that are registered on or after Friday July 21, 2006, will have a weekly stipend of L$400, down from L$500. Stipends for current Premium accounts are not affected by this change."

From Philip's statement: "New Premium accounts that are registered on or after Friday July 21, 2006, will have a weekly stipend of L$400, down from L$500. Stipends for current Premium accounts are not affected by this change."

So yes, you will continue to get your L$500.

*edit: Persephone moves fast*

I'm not. Look at my prediction on the first page of this thread. I expected it.

OMG! Don't start spreading rumors about me Fade!

Well of course you are not surprised Chronic .. As a live musician I bet you have been on the receiving end of more than one nickle tip, huh?

It's all true, I heard it from a friend's brother, and there's more.

meh, let them be jackasses, i'll simply sell everything i have, convert my money back to cash and uninstall second life...

Thanks for the quick response! Good then I guess I'll stick around a little longer....smile!
Wasn't planning on going anywhere....even if I had to drop back to basic I could still rent my place......Good to hear from you again Perse......

I have to laugh everytime someone says this. When you rent land from another player, you're still paying LL. Sorry to burst your bubble there. The land baron you're renting from is just an intermediary, they still have to turn your money around and send it to LL.

This stipen reduction is a celebration of one year into my Second Life World Domination Plan. King Kilroy is in charge now and Philip and the Linden stooges are under my control. Be afraid - be very very afraid.

well thank gawd they haven't taken push away so i can hunt you down and blast you into space that just might make up for the amount of lindens i no longer have..














(just joking!)

What do you look like? I have an opening in my harem for a firsky little gal like you.
Rawr

lol
im 4'2 750lbs

Well, that's true, but it wouldn't be directly coming from my bank account. I also rambled a bit and then realized within that same post that they might actually be slowly doing away with the premium accounts and do straight charging for the land, which if they follow the tier chart is 5 USD for the same 512m2 that premiums get as a base. This would be an acceptable and understandable explaination for all the changes.

I only pay the premium base for both the combination of land and stipend right now. Without the stipend, I'd only be willing to pay the 5 USD for the tier. Premium would no longer be worth the full price or reduced if you pay quarterly/yearly, and being premium would be far less desirable. Anything over the 5 USD is the price I pay LL directly for the L to spend in world. This explains the change for them to be able to sell the L on the Lindex... it's to make up the eventual loss of revenue between the cost of the 5 USD tier and premium accounts fees? Not just as an act to stablize the L/USD... since it would be removing the sinks...

I think that going with the tier chart instead of using the basic/premium would actually open up the land market to more people. It's cheaper for players, for one.


If this makes sense and I am right.. now I know what drugs the Lindens are on. It's called Zyrtec-D.

You kind of stumbled on it already, but if you go annually then premium is only like $6 anyway for 512m.

*noddles* I do quarterly, frankly, so I wasn't exactly sure on the annual. And I admit with a whole and happy heart that economics is not my subject.

I have been at the bottom of corporate food chains though to be able to guess the why's of things, even if I don't fully understand the details. I'll go back to letting it go over my head again and wait and see, then.