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Grandfathered status on transfer to end

Yes sir, I can Boogie, but I need a certain song, I can boogie, boogie woogie, all night long! Yes indeed that is Ciaran doing a happy dance, inspired by the news that grandfathered status is going to end on May 1st, as announced by Jack Linden on the blog. This is a long overdue move and I welcome my influence in the LL hierarchy, why else has this been earmarked to start on the date of my RL birthday! That was a joke by the way, well not about the birthday but you can save all your kisses for May.

Now some people will be unhappy about this. Those who chose to upgrade to a class 5 in the more than three years since grandfathering was first announced have the most reason to be unhappy about this in my view. Those who own grandfathered sims will see a devaluation in their estates worth, I don't want to sound like I have no sympathy for those guys but this was an accidental empire, this was never really supposed to have happened so take advantage of your  savings because if you hold onto your grandfathered islands the price isn't increasing at all this year.

Let's take a trip down memory line and remind ourselves of what happened, the blog post from 15th November 2006, which can be read here. The key points as to why those with grandfathered sims have an accidental empire can be seen here, with these comments in the blog:
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