Shady business practice

When is a 67% price hike not a 67% price hike? When M Linden blogs! People are falling for this waffle. I'm staggered at how easily pleased people are.

We now have new products:

Openspace - the original void sim, only with a lot less prims it supports just 750, 10 avatars and will have script and cpu limits that haven't yet been defined. No events, classifieds or rentals allowed.

Homestead - The product people have generally been using, the product Linden Lab knew was being used. Keeps its 3750 prim limit, restricted to 20 avatars. As above, will have script and cpu limits that haven't been defined. Can be used for rentals and events. However light use only, not suitable for malls.

On January 5th most openspaces will be converted to homesteads and tier will rise to USD$95. Then in July tier will rise to USD$125.

There will be free conversions to full sims if you own four openspaces between now and January. If you own less than four openspaces you can pay USD$250 for each missing openspace and convert free of charge after that until January. So for example if you own two openspaces, for a cost of USD$500 you could convert to a full island.

Basically this changes very little. Interestingly in the knowledgebase article it now says:

"If you are using your Openspace as a rental, or other unapproved use such as habitation, you are really using what we call a homestead".
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