Monday Morning Openspaces To-Do List
November 3, 2008 12:47 am
What do you think will be Linden’s next move? Call in M or even Philip? Sit-and-wait-till-it-blows-over a bit more? Grandfather the openspaces? … ? I’m just going to repeat the numbers:
Linden Lab can afford to lose some 40% of the currently online Openspace and still break even. - our grid: 26605 private estates & 5082 mainland - In June 2008 46% of all private estates were voids. Tyche Shepherd estimates that now 50% of all private regions are openspaces! - Thus, 13000 openspaces. - End result: at the 66% price rise, 5200 voids may disappear before Linden Lab will notice even a single drop in revenue. Oh, and they would save out on 1300 servers. But will loose about 20% of their landmass. No idea what I a ‘void’ or ‘openspace’ is? Start reading here. You have a lot of catching up to do!
6 Responses to “Monday Morning Openspaces To-Do List”
I think if you look at the financial issue you have to look further than just the tier lost. This is a move that completely disenfranchised many landowners, who you can pretty much see as their most loyal customers … after all, who spends 75 US $ a month on what is in all reality a 3D chatroom?
I wonder how many of these people will stop spending any money at all on Second Life - ending premium accounts, not buying Lindens anymore, and so on.
I am not going to make any predictions, since SL has gone through similar hits in the past with no real dent in its economy … but still I wonder if it will have a noticeable effect.
You’ll also have lost revenue from reduced LindeX volume, and reduced sinks.
Additionally, the entire economy might explode. Seriously. They can only sell lindens on LindeX, not buy them. That means if a period of rapid deflationary pressure hits due to a sudden population decrease, it’s entirely possible the L$ could devalue to nothing.
Too much speculation regarding the relative value and potential devaluation of any currency might prove costly. *wink*
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