That's a serious bug in LL's business model - your account is safer as a basic, since a premium account that quits paying means the account is deleted (rather than merely downgraded).
On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Tigro Spottystripes <tigrospottystri...@gmail.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > btw, if you're considering changing your account from premium to basic, > be sure to pay any money you own to LL and then downgrade your account > thru the site, do not just stop paying, if you stop paying them while > still being a premium they will wipe out all your account's data, > inventory L$ balance etc (i've seen some people that had the > misconception that to downgrade all you had to do was stop sending money > to LL, the ones that didn't got set straight in time lost everything) > > On 28/8/2010 13:01, mysticaldem...@xrgrid.com wrote: >> I don’t think anyone disagrees with. The problem is you can’t get a >> homestead unless you have a full sim already and so you need to rent >> from someone and this puts you dependent on someone else which is >> frustrating for people. So to log in one day and see all your hard work >> returned to your lost and found isn’t a pleasant experience and seems SL >> if they are serious about the user experience would have some better >> ways to handle this. >> >> >> >> I don’t know if you rent from someone else if you can do a restore of >> your region to the new location. But seems like there are ways to make >> this better if not just let people rent homesteads which to me I believe >> would be a huge market. >> >> >> >> Anyway this whole subject is off topic for this mailing list and >> probably should be on the SL forums. >> >> >> >> M. >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> *From:* opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com >> [mailto:opensource-dev-boun...@lists.secondlife.com] *On Behalf Of *Joel >> Foner >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 28, 2010 11:49 AM >> *To:* Aleric Inglewood >> *Cc:* opensource-dev >> *Subject:* Re: [opensource-dev] This is how Linden Lab treats it's >> customers... >> >> >> >> >> After being a paying customer for more than a year, renting a homestead, >> and thus paying Linden Lab ~ USD$ 1000 or so ... they just take the sim >> offline, with no opening to even discuss the matter. >> >> Why? Because of something I did? No. The reason is that Linden >> Lab isn't interested in the "little people". Unless you have a FULL >> sim of USD$ 300 per month, you don't count. >> >> >> >> There is a simple answer for this. You are the customer of your landlord >> in this case, not Linden Lab. Yes, you have a Second Life account, but >> you are not renting your land from Linden Lab. You are renting your land >> from another avatar in Second Life. Linden Lab is not a party to your >> decision to rent... so why are they accountable if some other avatar >> bails out and decides to "level their city block"? If the landlord >> decided to stop renting, boot everyone off and re-terraform the region >> for some completely different use, would you think Linden Lab would have >> any responsibility for stopping that or somehow compensating you? It's >> the landlord's land, and they can do anything with it they choose to, >> including shut it down, leave, take it over from the renters, or shut it >> down and let no one else in at all. >> >> >> >> Joel >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: >> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev >> Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting >> privileges > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEAREKAAYFAkx5Os0ACgkQ8ZFfSrFHsmWNbQCeL35cNo4MkluDPXFx2+ZGb3z3 > G/UAn31zdQ2HEKMoRzbp+3CYV/C+O5CM > =pGVm > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -- “Lanie, I’m going to print more printers. Lots more printers. One for everyone. That’s worth going to jail for. That’s worth anything.” - Printcrime by Cory Doctrow Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
