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04.16.08Linden Lab Announces It’s Ready to Say They’re Not Ready YetPossibly distracted by having to go back and sort out the age verification system, or maybe it's the roll out of a light weight client which they targeted for February, Linden Lab today announced that the fanfare they recently made about land price changes will be delayed now that they've realized that they weren't quite ready to make the announcement yet. The technology isn't ready, which, um, hasn't stopped them before? Edit: In all fairness, I'll stand down from that comment. Far better to get it right than to launch something glitchy. Take your time. But I'd still suggest that next ...
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04.10.08Linden Clarifies Island PricingLinden has further clarified the pricing structure of private islands and Open Space sims in a blog entry this evening. I posted initially here. The move is being "read" a number of ways - on the one hand instilling less confidence amongst land owners who rent or sell parcels who, without warning have seen the base costs of setting up comparable islands fall up to 40%. While others are reading is as a welcome shift that will encourage wider use of the Second Life platform. With competition from OpenSim, Vast Park and other grids where a sim can be had for as ...
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04.08.08Second Life Land Price Adjustments: Private Islands Fall 40%Linden Lab has announced that it's adjusting land pricing and the volume of Mainland which combined with its previous release of a new structure for low-prim sims suggests that it's continuing its trend of land become increasingly a commodity, against the competitive backdrop of OpenSim and other Grids that offer sims for as little as $100/month. The news will be welcome by people who want to purchase private islands. And I imagine that on the heels of the recent IBM announcement is meant to continue the encouragement of mainland. As the "grid" becomes more splintered, with companies and individuals moving to ...
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