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lol - nice analogy Bart.

I totally agree with your post Ciaran - I read the announcement today, and like Bart, just felt a little less fucked than before.  This latest announcement is essentially a clarification of exactly how we would get less for more.  The apparent concessions are window dressing, and a blatant attempt to appear to be listening - while no doubt clapping each other on the backs that they have been so damned clever about it all.  The only people that benefit from these false concessions are the incredibly small numbers of people that really do own sims that they just want to use for trees and water.  Wooot for them.

In the end, there's only one thing that LL will get, that will make them listen to residents and not take us for granted.   Spending less in SL.  The day before the original announcement, I had 34 Openspace sims.  Today I have 23.  Within two weeks, I will probably have fewer than a dozen.  Any more that I get rid of I will abandon - not sell - I don't just want someone else picking up the tier cost.  Maybe a futile gesture - but the $50 i might get for the Openspace in today's market is little more than a gesture as well...

Before the announcement, I had a monthly tier of almost $8,000 a month to LL.  Within two weeks, it will be down to half that.  The only reason I don;'t go farther is that I have people living on the sims, and people that have invested in the business to consider.  But eventually - over time, I will make my exit - I have lost any desire to build anything of substance in SL - I just want to make sure I dismantle in a responsible fashion.

Hey, in the grand scheme of things, it's not a lot - but it's $50,000 less a year for LL right away, and $100,000 less a year later.  And I am not alone - I have heard similar rumblings from a number of much larger landowners. 

I considered posting my thoughts on some of the forums, but it's just the usual silly drama on all of them.  Residents sniping at each other and talking with authority about things they don't understand and haven't taken the time to research properly.  The few clarion voices of reason are typically ignored (not that I'm saying I would be one of them - I am too pissed to be rational)  So I came back to Y2P - where i just KNEW Ciaran would have had something pithy to say!

The Lindens will claim, and may even actually believe, that they listened to residents on this issue.  But they did it in a small and manipulative way.  "How can we get what we want, and make them feel like they've been listened to."  Which is a far cry from actually listening - it's handling.   I hate being handled.

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