Void sims cost $250, and you have to have a private island already to be eligible to purchase them. Then tier is $75 after that. These are now glutting the market to such an extent that many existing and new land barons are charging less than the tier they themselves have to pay to the Lindens.
Only a few well-resourced and nimble land barons will maximize a profit from having this new capacity for privacy and increased waterfront -- most barons will flounder with all the competition -- and end user purchases and loaning to friends which is quite prevalent. Mystery math didn't go away -- to make a profit in the glutted market, you have to charge less, and as people begin to discover they can't get buy-backs and can't sell their purchased (but retained) void sims, the market will fall apart. http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/06/a-voiding-the-...
There are now 300 Lindens in fact. 20,000 sims. And only 385,000 people who spend more than L$1 per month in world, although tier paid by tier-payers is some $40 million or more in revenue for Lindens.
Hours online were flat for several months; premiums are only at 88,000, not recovering yet from a previous high; positive-Linden-flow businesses are not growing by very much at all. Second Life is spinning its wheels, having fallen into the classic traps that experts like Sir Bruce or Ed Castronova could have told them always happens to MMORPGs with synthetic economies.
I'm puzzled why the failure of the internal land market should bother you, when you exist outside it as essentially an entertainment market supported not with the model of content sales and land rentals inworld, but advertising spots by outworld corporations (unless in fact you try to cover tiers with Greenie clothing sales).
And I also fail to see how a model based on growthism, endlessly expanding as the world putatively keeps growing at some predictable rate, can ever work, not only because there isn't anything to predict, but because there's a concurrency ceiling on this grid.
Many people have reason to be really angry at the Lindens now; you don't, as they have had Greenies displayed on the Showcase for ages.
Lindens should not have built Bay City, competing with residents, but should have stuck to merely shoring up missing or broken infrastructure on existing sims.
Void sims cost $250, and you
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 08:41 — Prokofy Neva (not verified)Void sims cost $250, and you have to have a private island already to be eligible to purchase them. Then tier is $75 after that. These are now glutting the market to such an extent that many existing and new land barons are charging less than the tier they themselves have to pay to the Lindens.
Only a few well-resourced and nimble land barons will maximize a profit from having this new capacity for privacy and increased waterfront -- most barons will flounder with all the competition -- and end user purchases and loaning to friends which is quite prevalent. Mystery math didn't go away -- to make a profit in the glutted market, you have to charge less, and as people begin to discover they can't get buy-backs and can't sell their purchased (but retained) void sims, the market will fall apart.
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/06/a-voiding-the-...
There are now 300 Lindens in fact. 20,000 sims. And only 385,000 people who spend more than L$1 per month in world, although tier paid by tier-payers is some $40 million or more in revenue for Lindens.
Hours online were flat for several months; premiums are only at 88,000, not recovering yet from a previous high; positive-Linden-flow businesses are not growing by very much at all. Second Life is spinning its wheels, having fallen into the classic traps that experts like Sir Bruce or Ed Castronova could have told them always happens to MMORPGs with synthetic economies.
I'm puzzled why the failure of the internal land market should bother you, when you exist outside it as essentially an entertainment market supported not with the model of content sales and land rentals inworld, but advertising spots by outworld corporations (unless in fact you try to cover tiers with Greenie clothing sales).
And I also fail to see how a model based on growthism, endlessly expanding as the world putatively keeps growing at some predictable rate, can ever work, not only because there isn't anything to predict, but because there's a concurrency ceiling on this grid.
Many people have reason to be really angry at the Lindens now; you don't, as they have had Greenies displayed on the Showcase for ages.
Lindens should not have built Bay City, competing with residents, but should have stuck to merely shoring up missing or broken infrastructure on existing sims.