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I would have liked to of named this blog entry "FUCK YOU LINDEN LABS" because thats how I feel at the moment, but that's probably not great for the front page of Y2P.  You see I'm only moments away from learning that on January 1st the tier on my open space estates will increase from $75usd a month to $125usd.  If I did my math correctly that's a 67% increase.  A 67% increase right when our real life economy is in the shitter.  So why, why are they doing this..

Lets check out the BLOG. 

According to them it's because people are using the land.  Yea go figure right? No one wanted to pay estate  tier just to look at a pretty empty sim.  People actually used the allowed prim limit and made homes, business, and likewise.
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We need to therefore take some steps to improve their performance
and better reflect their actual usage levels in our pricing so that we
can maintain the best performance level for everyone. As a result, we
will be implementing a pricing change effective January 1st along with
some policy changes effective immediately.

Beginning 1st January 2009

We will increase the monthly maintenance fee from USD$75 to USD$125
per month. This price increase will apply to all owners of Openspaces
on January 1st as well as new purchases after that date. There will be
no grandfathering of Openspace maintenance pricing.

For anyone owning class 4 Openspaces on January 1st, they will be
upgraded to class 5 by end of January, to further improve the
experience people have on those regions.

At the same time, we will be increasing the upfront fee for brand new Openspaces from USD$250 to USD$375.

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