Linden Lab responds to void simulator furor

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Jack Linden, head of Linden Lab's Land Team, has proferred an update on the policy changes to void simulators that sparked a revolt in Second Life earlier this week. According to Jack, all of the feedback has been read. That must have been an absolutely Herculean task right there, considering that the responses number in the thousands, and Jack is apparently out of town.

Jack implies that the type of usage is a more important factor in the pricing changes than the actual cost of usage, though to be fair, it's an ambiguous pair of sentences, '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.'

Linden Lab themselves, appear to have a slew of apparently overloaded void simulators on the new Nautilus continent.

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Linden Lab responds to void simulator furor originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 30 Oct 2008 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.




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