it would seem (although I am not 100% sure) that you can now buy a single void sim or at least not in groups of 4 as had been the case. I think most of SL economy is focused on land speculation and when the bubble bursts (or did it already?) there will be a huge abandonment rate and new land sales will collapse. LL claims 18,109 islands at the end of May--it would improve confidence if they would support that with a land registry and identify full sim equivalents. We are concerned from a service perspective that without new land sales and even a small level of abandonment, then LL will have an issue paying all it's 250 employees, paying for its 5,000 servers, catering the executive lunchroom etc.
We are also concerned over the concurrency--how much is camper/bot traffic? And why are other residents in effect paying to carry all that load around? What is the camper/bot traffic rate atm 10%? 50%??? I think LL is also concerned as they have not yet flipped the Popular Place out which would kill the value of camping and reduce concurrency as well as strip out a lot of the cashflowing to residents. So, growth is essential--but LL is masking it and it is likely that real growth stopped in 2007 and now the core users are weaking (premium members decreasing 2-3%/month)
Putting greenies on showcase (for like a week btw) is nice, but hardly helps some of the issues that effect users. June had major service failures (or did they, since LL doesn't post SLA data) on two weekends where most of the merch sales are done. So in effect we lost half of our revenue in June.
Totally agree (and pls Prok don't take that personally) that LL should not have built Bay City--and allowed speculators to run the per prim prices to $2/per prim when on a void it $.08/per prim--it shows that LL is as greedy and explotative of their own platform as anyone else. Ultimately they will not even make that much money on it. It will also be the imho that this event will trigger the backlash not just from the small-time land barons, but mainly from the bigger players who of course have the most to lose (or have already lost--with no hope of recovery).
If LL is serious about 3D Web, they should split the platform service from the land speculation business. We want a service level agreement. We need more tools to attract new users. We need a more robust system to support our operations.
it would seem (although I am
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 10:27 — RightAsRain Rimbaudit would seem (although I am not 100% sure) that you can now buy a single void sim or at least not in groups of 4 as had been the case. I think most of SL economy is focused on land speculation and when the bubble bursts (or did it already?) there will be a huge abandonment rate and new land sales will collapse. LL claims 18,109 islands at the end of May--it would improve confidence if they would support that with a land registry and identify full sim equivalents. We are concerned from a service perspective that without new land sales and even a small level of abandonment, then LL will have an issue paying all it's 250 employees, paying for its 5,000 servers, catering the executive lunchroom etc.
We are also concerned over the concurrency--how much is camper/bot traffic? And why are other residents in effect paying to carry all that load around? What is the camper/bot traffic rate atm 10%? 50%??? I think LL is also concerned as they have not yet flipped the Popular Place out which would kill the value of camping and reduce concurrency as well as strip out a lot of the cashflowing to residents. So, growth is essential--but LL is masking it and it is likely that real growth stopped in 2007 and now the core users are weaking (premium members decreasing 2-3%/month)
Putting greenies on showcase (for like a week btw) is nice, but hardly helps some of the issues that effect users. June had major service failures (or did they, since LL doesn't post SLA data) on two weekends where most of the merch sales are done. So in effect we lost half of our revenue in June.
Totally agree (and pls Prok don't take that personally) that LL should not have built Bay City--and allowed speculators to run the per prim prices to $2/per prim when on a void it $.08/per prim--it shows that LL is as greedy and explotative of their own platform as anyone else. Ultimately they will not even make that much money on it. It will also be the imho that this event will trigger the backlash not just from the small-time land barons, but mainly from the bigger players who of course have the most to lose (or have already lost--with no hope of recovery).
If LL is serious about 3D Web, they should split the platform service from the land speculation business. We want a service level agreement. We need more tools to attract new users. We need a more robust system to support our operations.