The price hike PLUS the sudden processing fee doubling is what really has me irritated. There is very very little good int his announcement - a 20 dollar discount on an extremely expensive purchase - it's laughable how menial the discount is, hilariously so. Not at all going to push anyone who wasn't already planning on buying or already a sim owner into buying land. Basically feels pointless. The tiny increase to groups and IM's....well for 27 dollars more it's basically nothing and you're completely trampling on basic users to make it seem like it's slightly more than nothing.
Basically this all just feels like a bad joke. It's understandable that things increase, that fees increase, but other stuff like group numbers or IM caps don't have a required cap on them that you have to shove in there to put a monetary value on. You had to decrease the basic numbers to make the premium membership seem like it had value as you hiked it. Ontop of that, ti feels incredibly tactless to do this at the same time as a processing fee increase while also giving nothing in return and acting like there's basically any good to this announcement.
Something really needs to be done because everywhere I look ingame, out of game it's just people talking about what a mess this is....I see very few happy people. Even sim owners I know really could care less given how trivial the fees are. Great anniversary gift.