Comments on: Details on the Q2 2008 Island Price Change

By: MadamG Zagato

MadamG Zagato — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:10:57 +0000

Nicely worded Melissa
Last Comment Woot!

By: Hiro

Hiro — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:10:32 +0000

For the further discussion or expressing your opinion on this new pricing policy, we can use the following thread I made.
This is not about Openspace though, so I made a new thread for the entire new pricing policy.
(I’m personally not against the SIM price going down. People pay for the full tier anyway. But I’m not satisfied by their announcement and schedule being too quick.)

Discussion Thread - Details on the Q2 2008 Island Price Change
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?p=1943789#post1943789

By: Arifi Saeed

Arifi Saeed — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:09:06 +0000

Notwithstading all the whooping and hollaring yesterday, this is a very positive move. Despite the fact that I just bought my first sim from a friend based on the old price, I am looking forward to the opportunity to buy at least a couple of adjacent openspace sims to go with it as soon as the new land store opens. All I want now is a lower monthly tier!

All the best,

Arifi

Arifi Saeed, Research Director, SL
Canopus Research Inc.
arifi.saeed@canopusresearch.com

By: Uccello Poultry

Uccello Poultry — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:08:22 +0000

@143 … glad you labeled your comment as sarcasm … seems like most folks don’t understand the art these days.

:::shrugs and envies anyone with the wherewithal to own a sim:::

By: Absolute Balderdash

Absolute Balderdash — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:03:58 +0000

Its great news that more people can buy into SL land. Even though I have lost some money on paper for my own sims, I am glad that more people will be able to enjoy owning a bit of SL.

And, look me up in-world if you can now afford to buy a new sim and would like a fantastic custom built island design — shameless self promoting advert. acknowledged

By: Melissa

Melissa — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:01:49 +0000

@143

Hahaha, good one LS.

SALE = GOOD in my book

By: Dirk Massiel

Dirk Massiel — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:58:00 +0000

@28 - I agree with PonygirlSarah Clapper and would like to see her ideas implemented.

I think thats all I can say.

By: LS

LS — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:48:31 +0000

LL, how DARE you put sims on sale? What were you thinking? People have purchased your goods at full price in the past and now you put them on sale? This wouldn’t possibly be anything a ‘REAL’ life business would do…..

Or would it?
(Yes, this is sarcasm)

I can’t believe all the complaints and visciousness that are pouring out in this blog.

By: Canyon

Canyon — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:48:28 +0000

Frowns @ 134

That is called market saturation and what alot of us fear. I, myself, am not in the land sales circus in SL, but this is a prime example of what is to come. If land was free, that would be sweet, but the entire economy that was tried to be made in SL would be overinflated and present a market that was overfilled with competition dirving everything down in price. If everything is driven down in price, then no one spends the time and effort to make anything new and exciting here.

On that thought, if the price is right for you, go right ahead, but logically, over saturating the market promotes alot of empty land you yourself are paying tier on, not those hopeful renters.

Lastly, alot of thoughts have come from this and with conversations with alot of people from this blog that I have had. Setting prices lower increases the number of people paying 295 a month for their own sim. This looks really good on paper, kind of like the overinflation of avies we have inworld now. At one time new avies were given the sum of 250L dollars per account. A number of people made dozens of them and handed the money over to a main avie. All of a sudden, along with media influences, we went from 400,000 members to millions in what seemed like a blink of an eye.

So now we have “14″ million members etc, and we have this many people paying this amount, we know revenues will go up (this being because we make money on people buying/selling lindens and that will go down because more RL money of these users is spent on new sims and tier) with all our new island sales. Look at this spreadsheet we made.. so many members, so many spending this much on tier let’s take this over to a public sector and see what they would pay for this before we go bust and the money’s drained out.

So HELLO GOOGLE!

By: Hiro

Hiro — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:48:09 +0000

@140

This is one of the reason I don’t want cheaper SIMs. More of these people, come and go out of pocket money in half a year or so.
Lots of poor residents Second Life will be wasted.