Openspace pricing part 2

In my last blog post I wrote about LL's announcement to increase openspace sim pricing by 60-67% in january 2009. As you can imagine this caused a little uproar in the second life community. As result LL & Jack Linden have posted another statement on the official LL blog:

As mentioned in the post, Openspaces were intended for space, empty areas of ocean or forest. Take a look at the Knowledgebase article description here. By that criteria, the large majority of Openspaces have more going on than was the original intent. We are not suggesting this is a bad thing, and of course we’re delighted that people have found them to be so useful. And we’re not saying that everyone is abusing resources. We are saying that the use has changed, and continues to do so as people find more creative ways to use them. So the revised pricing is about recognising that change of use and the additional costs and value associated with it.

This is quite interesting.
While Jack LInden said in his first blog post that OS sims create a massive load on the assets server and people over using them, LL now moves to saying "we calculated the value wrong and they are to cheap for what you get". LL realises now that landlords are making 25-50US$ profit from their OS sims and after they allowed the same landlords to order thousands of new OS sims to rent out... LL now turns around wanting a peace of the cake.

A jira has been created for SL residents to voice their opinion about the planned price increase. Amazing thing is.. I can't remember any jira that ever got so many votes from residents. Please visit this jira post and leave your comment on the issue & vote against the price increase. You can login to the SL jira with your SL user name and password.

-Wise