Now that this OpenSpace fiasco is almost upon us, I feel that there is more coming from our new pal M Linden.  I think the OpenSpace price hike was just the opening shot.  LL has demonstrated time and time again they will do whatever they and pretty much without disregard to their customers.  And I mean their customers by saying the sim owners.  Scum avies are just annoyances.  Bots are better than us avies as we don’t cause nearly as much problems.

What’s in it for round 2?  My guess is they are going to make being a premium account paying resident a requirement for a number of things.  This is all about maximum revenue extraction now.  They will add some fluffy things to it as a bone, but pretty much force everyone who wants to stay in SL beyond a casual player to pay.  They’ll loose about 50% of their active users, but their revenue will increase, which is what they want.

I expect more too…  Let me think now…  Class 6 servers are coming, so of course they will be about 4-10 times faster than the Class 5 servers.  So let’s say the bump the prim count for a sim to 20,000 prims, but up the cost to $395 a month.  Costs them essentially nothing, and they get a 33% boost in revenue!

I used to have like expectation for improvements and more features, now I’m just hoping for status quo.  I should know better.  There’s just an endless supply of things they could and pretty much will do to based on past experience now.  How depressing….

-Veyron