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Originally Posted by ZATZAi  Still you can't order an openspace sim without owning a full island. And why not? Some people think it's because it would hurt the market too much and that's probably true but I suspect there is another reason why. I think it is because of support, because island owners get a different, higher, level of support than those on the mainland even if you own several sims worth of land on the mainland. Openspace sims have access to the same tools and same support that a full sim does, and I don't think LL has the ability nor desire to provide estate level support to potentially thousands of openspace owners. |
Yeah, the lab doesn't give two squirts about current estate owners' livelihoods, but they DO like having estate owners field support requests for them. Things like the region tools and Abuse Report forwarding are things that relieve some of LL's support burden.
I can think of a number of other valid reasons why LL wouldn't want to open them up to all, but the support issue is the major thing, I think.
Really that's the only thing that scares me about the topic. If they opened openspace ownership to all, do all those people now become concierge residents? Is the 3 weeks I currently have to wait for an island transfer or move request now going to be 6 weeks or longer? I think 3 weeks is absolutely fucking shameful, by the way. I'd tear every last one of my hairs out if the SLA got any worse.