32,000 sounds about right according to their website 26,665 at end of Sept + 1,171 added so far this month (is 30% down from Sept level btw) = 27,836 "owned islands" and then if you toss in 5,000 for mainland you get to the 32,000 roughly. Funny how they pull out mainland from the owned land on their website but include it in their datasets. Anyway, so then...13,000 if that is right, is about 1/2 of the "owned islands" which is what I have been saying all along is that there is no growth on the grid...merely conversions of full to voids.
So what is the pay-off that Linden is looking for as a result of all of this "immersive workspace" guided strategy? Considering they are "saying" they will charge everyone (I would like to see the invoice to ACS actually) including academic users who already have sweet-deals and old-time sim owners who basically pay $25/month for a void, it looks their opportunity top end is 13,000 x 50 = $USD650,000 maybe $USD700,000 per month. But that really won't possibly happen as people either 1) abandon their sim 2) consolidate 4 voids back into 1 full at $295/month = no uplift for LL. So maybe there is $200,000 monthly on the table for them--plus whatever new voids are sold (but what landowner is gonna suck up the new terms--and pls if you are pls call me first as I can make a great deal on the London Bridge for you--we here in London and I know people who know people).
So all of this mess to gain $USD 2.4 million in 2009? What is all the global bad PR gonna costs? But what all the people that are going to dump their full sims as a result of this? We will drop sims (not all of them as we still want to maintain our brands and connection with the SL community). We will drop sims not directly as a result of this "jack-it-up" crisis, but because this point in time is were we have finally lost faith that Linden Lab will ever be a professional organization. Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.
32,000 sounds about right
Fri, 10/31/2008 - 12:20 — RightAsRain Rimbaud32,000 sounds about right according to their website 26,665 at end of Sept + 1,171 added so far this month (is 30% down from Sept level btw) = 27,836 "owned islands" and then if you toss in 5,000 for mainland you get to the 32,000 roughly. Funny how they pull out mainland from the owned land on their website but include it in their datasets. Anyway, so then...13,000 if that is right, is about 1/2 of the "owned islands" which is what I have been saying all along is that there is no growth on the grid...merely conversions of full to voids.
So what is the pay-off that Linden is looking for as a result of all of this "immersive workspace" guided strategy? Considering they are "saying" they will charge everyone (I would like to see the invoice to ACS actually) including academic users who already have sweet-deals and old-time sim owners who basically pay $25/month for a void, it looks their opportunity top end is 13,000 x 50 = $USD650,000 maybe $USD700,000 per month. But that really won't possibly happen as people either 1) abandon their sim 2) consolidate 4 voids back into 1 full at $295/month = no uplift for LL. So maybe there is $200,000 monthly on the table for them--plus whatever new voids are sold (but what landowner is gonna suck up the new terms--and pls if you are pls call me first as I can make a great deal on the London Bridge for you--we here in London and I know people who know people).
So all of this mess to gain $USD 2.4 million in 2009? What is all the global bad PR gonna costs? But what all the people that are going to dump their full sims as a result of this? We will drop sims (not all of them as we still want to maintain our brands and connection with the SL community). We will drop sims not directly as a result of this "jack-it-up" crisis, but because this point in time is were we have finally lost faith that Linden Lab will ever be a professional organization. Meet the new boss...same as the old boss.