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Luxa Budan · 07-21-2008, 09:46 PM

Yeah I do not think we are at a plateau by any means. Thats the problem. The smart move was for the lindens to make maintaining a sim more likley, I would have loved instead of dropping the sim purchase to 1000.00 to see the monthly drop by 50.00. Natually, you will have slower sim additions BUT higher retention of those that do come in. A more stable economy can develop around it. Yes there are some people that arent looking to make any money off their sim and get it for the sheer enjoyment. However, the mass amount of people either do it for profit or at a minimum to have a sim that partially pays for itself.

Anyway, plateau no but with the surge of sims since the lowering of the cost to 1000.00 we are seeing the classic bubble form. Not sure when its gonna happen but sooner or later the land bubble is gonna burst as more and more people cannot cover their sims as the paying people get more and more spread out. There will be a folding of a lot of sims. SL will take another bloody nose which it will more then likely survive then the survivors of the sim crash

will emerge and there will be an economic balance for awhile as even though people can afford sims they will be gunshy after the bloodbath.

What SL needs to worry about is these opengrid projects. None are on par with SL YET but they are working on it hard. In fact, Microsoft has been fishing around realextend and one of the open grids, looking to merge their live technology. Then there is Google Live. Depending on when the bubble bursts or how long confidence in SL is shot then these alternatives could be what really ends up hurting SL and you see a major downturn. Unless soemthign completely crazy happens, SL will not get killed by it but they are likely to not be the giant of the virtual worlds they are now.

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Luxa Budan Junior Member Slightly to the left Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 2	Yeah I do not think we are at a plateau by any means. Thats the problem. The smart move was for the lindens to make maintaining a sim more likley, I would have loved instead of dropping the sim purchase to 1000.00 to see the monthly drop by 50.00. Natually, you will have slower sim additions BUT higher retention of those that do come in. A more stable economy can develop around it. Yes there are some people that arent looking to make any money off their sim and get it for the sheer enjoyment. However, the mass amount of people either do it for profit or at a minimum to have a sim that partially pays for itself. Anyway, plateau no but with the surge of sims since the lowering of the cost to 1000.00 we are seeing the classic bubble form. Not sure when its gonna happen but sooner or later the land bubble is gonna burst as more and more people cannot cover their sims as the paying people get more and more spread out. There will be a folding of a lot of sims. SL will take another bloody nose which it will more then likely survive then the survivors of the sim crash will emerge and there will be an economic balance for awhile as even though people can afford sims they will be gunshy after the bloodbath. What SL needs to worry about is these opengrid projects. None are on par with SL YET but they are working on it hard. In fact, Microsoft has been fishing around realextend and one of the open grids, looking to merge their live technology. Then there is Google Live. Depending on when the bubble bursts or how long confidence in SL is shot then these alternatives could be what really ends up hurting SL and you see a major downturn. Unless soemthign completely crazy happens, SL will not get killed by it but they are likely to not be the giant of the virtual worlds they are now.