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5 minutes ago, Evangeline Arcadia said:

Yeah, many posts here with folks not happy.  Thing is when people are unhappy you are more likely to hear those voices than those that are. There was bound to be some upset with the price rise, and that sentiment voiced in the forum. It's well known that you'll hear a complaint more than a compliment.  I doubt many will bother to post saying 'yay great LL, I don't mind'. I'm not happy paying more either:( I understand the complaints, but a premium rise was bound to happen sometime, just like the cost of most things in life.

I do however think it would have been better to implement a much smaller increase over the past few years than a bigger one this year. I dare say we'll all get over it at some point (self included), and either suck it up or cancel the premium account. Let's hope it's not too much of the latter cos that won't help SL.

"Some upset with the price raise" That's a bit of an understatement I think.And most of my issue has to do with processing fees as a creator ontop as well as the fact that essentially ontop of paying more I am getting nothing more and they are taking things away from people to make it seem like I'm paying more. Like I said as well, the premium raise isn't something I think is unreasonable. The fact that they straight up took things away form people to make it seem like there was value in premium is.....

We also just got a processing fee increase.....Like I said there was nothing 'given' and the problem here isn't the price hike of premium it's the fact that there's some strange veil of 'gift for anniversary'. 

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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.