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Originally Posted by Sarah Nerd  I can't begin to describe how angry I am right now. When they started the single open space thing it forced me to convert a few of my full sims to them and sell two because no one wanted full estates anymore. Now with this increase they will be worthless. No one will want to rent them and there will be no resale value. I'll probably just have to take some off the grid and lose even more than I already have (and it's been a lot). A 67% increase is fucking insane and uncalled for. I have a few slow moving open spaces. They're gone now I guess. I really feel like with this move, I am going to loose the estate end of my business. I guess I'll just stick with mainland. |
I am sorry that all this has a bad effect on your business Sarah, it is always the honest and good people that get bitten the hardest.
I do feel with all this though that LL is not the one to blame (this time). They made it very clear what uses they should be used for imo.
It is the unscrupulous land resellers/renters that saw an opportunity for lots of profit who have screwed the market for everyone (as usual I might add).
* If telling people how they should be used (correctly) and enforcing that as part of a convenant on every single openspace had been done then likelihood is that very few openspaces would be resold/rented as the only people who would be interested in getting them would be people who wanted them as true openspaces (in the LL definition).
* If these unscrupulous people had not sold them knowing full well that malls, heavily scripted devices and large mansions would be built on them then this problem would not have occured in my opinion.
* If the rules had been followed then the need to convert full prim islands to openspaces just to compete would likely be unnecessary as most people would have stuck to reselling/renting full sims for the most part, there would have no alternative for most people - just like before.
So just like on the mainland where unscrupulous people ruin it for the rest, it has now happened for islands too.
The question is really when will LL get sick of unscrupulous people ruining stuff to get rich quick and start banning their asses?