[Buy Fee Change Discussion]

1 minute ago, bigmoe Whitfield said:

SL has to make money to continue running,  so you believe this is a bad move,   I see it as a move so they continue to operate and not dig into their bottom line,   you need to go own a company where you learn that fee's will eat you alive,  unless you pass them along to the consumer,   I know first hand what fee's can do and I know they had to be passed along or I would not be in business.  

don't expect me to buy huge amounts of lindens anytime soon and it's not just me .. let's see how they're gonna make money like this

[Buy Fee Change Discussion]

LL are digging their own grave by raising the fee

You're making it harder for people to buy lindens, especially those who live in developing countries

Did you really have to do this in the middle of a pandemic? Bad move

[Farewell... (soon)]

Never met the guy but I guess he was one of the greats at LL

The question is, who's gonna be replacing him?

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5 minutes ago, Sylvia Tamalyn said:

Nice generalizations, but maybe they have a satisfying RL and are in SL purely to dress up their dolly. 

🙄🙄🙄

That was for the comment about adult content made prior to it

But you're right .. I should speak for myself

I digress  

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Sex sells more

It's all good as long as the investors don't remove it from the game (or simulator for the sensitive ones), otherwise, bye SL cuz I ain't taking no photoshop classes for selfies 😄

 

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26 minutes ago, CoffeeDujour said:

This is a misconception that's often repeated.

Yes, adult locations are among the busiest locations, but only because they focus people into few locations for extended periods of time (and for simplicity's sake, lets ignore all the AFK places).

In terms of "keeping the lights on" it's shopping events, in which one event can pack multiple regions 24/7 all day every day, and a constant churn of short stay visitors who are only there to spend money. It brings in significantly more income than all those people at clubs or adult places standing about in silence or poseball hopping.

Playing dress up and house is the primary passtime in SL and a huge portion of the player-base do it alone. It rarely gets the attention sex does for obvious reasons. Also keep in mind there is a big difference between dressing up super sexy and actually doing anything.

In order to have good pixel sex you first play dress up; go shopping and doll yourself up and then go for sex

There's no way a healthy, young, able-bodied SLer who spends lots of money shopping to look pretty does it for nothing unless the person has some kind of condition or is an old fart

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SL is alive and very well for now

It only dies if they remove the adult content