honestly i'm just saying give all quartly accounts and yearly accounts 1.5 months free cause thats what this plan is. If I was a monthly account I would be changing it to quartly, so that I would only pay 11.25 for the 1st quarter and then I could save up the 22.50 to keep that going. You get someone playing SL for 3 months and lock them in to that cycle they will play for a longer time.
Is this a hand out well yes but in the MMO community this isn't unheard of. World of warcraft gives longtime players pets. Eve gives out stuff and they are very successful. Asking linden labs to add a month and a half to match this promotion isn't going to ruin them. all it will do is make sure everyone is around for another 45 days for them to wow and astound us.