Originally Posted by Gigs

Maybe a little. I put a warning on mine (in the covenant) and when people asked if it would be a good place to do big gatherings of people I told them no. If anyone really misrepresented openspaces, that should be treated as fraud and action should be taken against those people.

But LL created the overall demand here. We were forced to fill that demand, because standard islands weren't really renting as well anymore.

The key for a lot of people is that openspaces offer the only real privacy in SL. As prokofy says, they are "humper bunkers". That's a very compelling thing that Linden Lab has not provided in any way, shape, or form, anywhere else in SL. LL created a compelling product offering when they stopped requiring them to be connected to other islands. You can't blame people too much for giving customers what they wanted.