[Market crash (update: LL unchrashed it)]

now call me crazy, but if someone makes a complex head they can surely distribute a hud through group notices for a "personal inworld vendor no transfer that works until midnight" and avoid all this while keeping transactional records (for redeliveries).

But I guess making a flash sale akin to a DDoS is a way to flex too, I honestly can't say about their reasoning but it also shines a light in how many more visits MP could be getting after  some updating/upgrading.

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9 hours ago, Solar Legion said:

(...) Here? They had to change the scripting (...) If you're going to try to make an external comparison, compare it to changing your legal name in real life - you'll be a lot closer to the mark then.

Well, yes. But actually no!

The extra effort due to lack of coding skill from the original dev team should not factor against customers.

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Thank you for all your replies, you all are the best 😃

Lemme try to answer some:

 

8 hours ago, AdminGirl said:

(...) And I think any business that offers anything for free is the opposite of disrespectful. It comes down to expectations and perspective.

I think you're right. My heart rests at easy now. 

No, really. Don't want, son't pay for it, but I was so disappointed I had to rant a little. I took it personal. It wasn't. 

 

6 hours ago, Mollymews said:

yes i don't get why, it being a fixed fee, that it isn't open to non-premium accounts as well

Yeap, but as someone else said probably it's to promote a month of premium.

Maybe they'll open up in the future.

 

6 hours ago, Syo Emerald said:

(...) To you premium membership is worth it simply because you can skip lines (...) I don't really get what this has to do with respect.

I meant it's the only thing I happen to use. But yeah, the respect part is because I believed the token price speech and the "let's build together" and all that. (more bellow)

6 hours ago, Syo Emerald said:

And you can base that statement on what? (...) Is SL suddenly less about community (for you) because you now have the theoretical option to change a name you have been unhappy with? If so, why? 

(about cashgrab) Because 40 USD doesn't feel like a random number. It's a well estabilished entry-price, aiming people who already spent a lot more on a char (which raises the added value of a desired name change). It's not aimed at selling people what they want, It's mark-up focused. 

Yes it's a valid business practice. Yes we all do it. Doesn't change the fact that it's a mark-up.

 

10 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

Hmm, quoting the entire thing, just for preservation sake - cuz things happen

Such a forum savy (/me hugs). 😃

The disrespect was bull*****ing about token price, not about charging. But I guess writerly text, as Roland Barthes would put it, happens. Cheers

 

Love y'all

 

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2 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

And you feel "disrespected" by LL because they are charging?   Disrespected?   

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Yeah, literally not what I said. I just don't see why the need to say "token price so people won't change name so often" and the likes of it. Just say it like it is and that's okay.

But disapointed, for sure. 

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So, I've heard on that live streaming that the name change would come with a small fee to prevent too many changes and all that. Maybe to cover upkeep cost on all those changes needed for it. But to change a line of text for the price of a full Triple A game...

This makes me sad. SL has always been about community, and although I know I'm far from being a huge spender here, I had my fare share of moneys going to support designers and artists and even got premium to support Linden Labs itself (really, the only good perk is cutting the line to get into Uber, Acess, Cosmo, etc). 

It's not a token price. It's not something to mitigate costs. It's a cash grab, in my humble opinion, over a community that would probably have too much invested by this point.

I may be wrong, but at least for me this is a turning point regarding my SL spendings. Maybe it's about respect. Maybe I'm just butthurt because right now eveyone inworld is making freebies to keep people at home and this comes at a bad timing. I dunno. 

What I do know is that this puts a hard stop on all my SL spendings. I'll still be a part of this community, and I even think I have another year or so of premium already paid upfront, so this is not a "oh, why I left SL post" nor any sort of babling like that. I'm just concerned that how I feel right now may be how many of us feel. A bit disrespected, that's all.