Comments on: Downgrading SL ALT account from Premium to Basic, one down, one left

By: Diox

Diox — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:48:26 +0000

I also just downgraded my account, haven’t been on much lately as rl is getting more interesting anyway, also the td’s where a bummer too.

By: Hal

Hal — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:06:46 +0000

I did notice that you’d kept one (profitable) premium account TD, but in the true spirit of blog forums, i thought i’d make my sarcastic post anyway, sorry! Good that u kept one foot still on the mainland with us other optimists!

I wish Linden would listen to their paying customers instead of chasing signups. I doubt that premium accounts being cancelled is enough. At the moment there’s so much theft of original content being allowed to happen there will soon be little reason to login to SL anyway. Then LL might wake up and do something. If you want to see how this might play out - have a look at the music industry, what’s left of it.

Web on a prim is going to be interesting. I can think of many great uses for it - but unfortunately far more bad uses for it (web advertising all over SL, anyone?) but maybe that’s just the way my head works…

By: hiro market

hiro market — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:57:24 +0000

Well they recently reported a slight rise in premiums for December (figures are still published), and their maxiumum concurrency figures seem to be drifting upwards pretty consistently (they were stuck at around 57,000 for a while, but have broken the record two weeks in succession now at 63,000+ and 57,000 is starting to look normal for mid week). And while they did seem pretty stuck technologically in the middle of last year in recent months we’ve had Windlight, Havok4 and now Mono into public beta. Mono in particular promises a lot as scripts are running 200 - 300 x faster (yes, really - it’s theoretically 700x, but in practise somewhat less). And HTML on a prim is rumoured for release by the end of the quarter.
To be honest like you I was real skeptical about SL for much of last year, but in retrospect I think it was simply the phenominal increase in growth in the first half that did for for them. Since September of so when that slowed down and they go a breathing space they do seem to have got it together, and compared to There and the like are streets ahead. Also with IBM and LL taking about the Open Sim project like it’s a done deal the future is looking pretty bright.

By: TD Goodliffe

TD Goodliffe — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 14:41:54 +0000

Hal - I know very well it was making a small profit (see my past posts here on this) but that profit is entirely based on future speculation that the L$ won’t change in value. Being that Linden Lab is fixing their market it probably won’t. At the same time I’d rather invest my $72 elsewhere and am fairly certain I’ll make more than a few dollars a year after fees

In case you didn’t miss, I still have another account making L$500 a week and that was renewed last month. The big problem for me is Linden Lab is not moving fast enough. They had all the buzz and squandered the opportunities.

They need web on a prim, they need to open source the server software. By closing our premium accounts maybe they’ll get the message.

Then again, maybe not.

By: Hal

Hal — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:38:54 +0000

If you have a premium account that you renew annually and that pays L$500 per week stipend - you’re making a (small) profit every year. Why do you think Linden reduced the stipend to $300?

You just cancelled an account that was actually making you (a little) bit of money every year and in the process entitled you to own mainland, if u choose.

If you’re not using or enjoying it then i guess it makes sense to close it…

…actually no, it still doesn’t make any sense…