Land bubble is a bigger issue--it is collapse of future value of land. "Land" in SL is already a phantom--there is no seaside, there is no view. There are only bad neighbors. LL at once lowered the price of the sims--to encourage new land sales presumably AND introduced Bay City to increase the cost of a parcel. Now with declining new users--this is bubble waiting to burst. In fact what they should have done is to lower the tier for people that have been holding sims for more than 6 months.
Let's think about tier for a minute--is all money for LL. But is $0.03 per prim a fair price? Anyone can get a 2.4GHZ Intel P4 CPU for $100/month -- assuming you can put a region on a CPU that comes out to $0.01 per prim. Now that is a general public price--with LL buying so many servers you might expect them to get a better deal. So what is between 0.01 and 0.03? Of course some of the LL services/software to support their stack. But, after a few thousand islands, isn't there some economy of scale? Should there be some reduction for the loyal land owners?
...and btw--SL does not get web traffic volumes. We see about 100,000 avatar visits per month, which is small scale for web traffic. But you are right that the coporate sponsor market is dead atm. Also there is a new area at Greenies--so good time to visit again (and buy stuff).
Newbies are essential--improve registrations and improve conversion rates is the future (let's see if LL gets that message before it is too late).
Land bubble is a bigger
Mon, 06/30/2008 - 12:15 — RightAsRain RimbaudLand bubble is a bigger issue--it is collapse of future value of land. "Land" in SL is already a phantom--there is no seaside, there is no view. There are only bad neighbors. LL at once lowered the price of the sims--to encourage new land sales presumably AND introduced Bay City to increase the cost of a parcel. Now with declining new users--this is bubble waiting to burst. In fact what they should have done is to lower the tier for people that have been holding sims for more than 6 months.
Let's think about tier for a minute--is all money for LL. But is $0.03 per prim a fair price? Anyone can get a 2.4GHZ Intel P4 CPU for $100/month -- assuming you can put a region on a CPU that comes out to $0.01 per prim. Now that is a general public price--with LL buying so many servers you might expect them to get a better deal. So what is between 0.01 and 0.03? Of course some of the LL services/software to support their stack. But, after a few thousand islands, isn't there some economy of scale? Should there be some reduction for the loyal land owners?
...and btw--SL does not get web traffic volumes. We see about 100,000 avatar visits per month, which is small scale for web traffic. But you are right that the coporate sponsor market is dead atm. Also there is a new area at Greenies--so good time to visit again (and buy stuff).
Newbies are essential--improve registrations and improve conversion rates is the future (let's see if LL gets that message before it is too late).