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Chicken Rosca
Registered User
Join date: 21 Jun 2007
Posts: 30
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07-07-2007 04:45
Hi!
I wonder if there's any land that needen't any rental. I mean I only have to afford the land fee, but I needn't pay the rental every month. TIA~~
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Resolver Bouchard
Registered User
Join date: 19 Jul 2006
Posts: 89
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07-07-2007 04:52
No, you will have to pay a monthly amount on any land.
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Incanus Merlin
Not User Serviceable
Join date: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 583
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07-07-2007 06:20
From: Resolver Bouchard No, you will have to pay a monthly amount on any land. hmmm not quite.... your first 512 m2 is tier free... but of course you have to be a premium member to own land in the first place..... |
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Gomez Bracken
Who said that??
Join date: 12 Apr 2007
Posts: 479
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07-07-2007 07:44
From: Chicken Rosca Hi!
I wonder if there's any land that needen't any rental. I mean I only have to afford the land fee, but I needn't pay the rental every month. TIA~~ No, you will normally always need to pay some type of ongoing fee - whether it be premium memebrship for up to 512, or tier fees for higher. The reasoning behind this is that even though you have bought the land, there is always ongoing costs involved to the owner/renter of the server the land is on. These are hardware costs and connectivity/bandwidth costs. If would simply not be a good business model to let people buy land at a one off charge then be commited to provide the necessary service in keeping that land online with no further income. Think of land tier fees in a similar way to Internet web hosting - you will normally have to pay a monthly or yearly fee for hosting services - in SL it's just the same. I do, however think that the current tier fees are excessive compared to the actual costs involved, even with a decent level of profit included. To turn it on it's head, you could always just rent land without paying upfront for it - then you pay the rental as dictated by the land owner, saving you also having to pay land purchase price or separate tier fees. Gomez |