There’s been an awful lot of controversy lately centered around the change in fee structure at XStreet.  By and large, low priced items, demos and freebies are taking a hit – particularly those who rely in some large part on the service for $L in world, but also with those who provide quality free content, such as skins, scripts, unique gadgets, etc. With that said, while I do hold sympathy for these individuals, I can...

or both? Anyone who’s kept an account in SL for a while will have experienced an overall theme of negativity when it comes to overall operation, pricing, policy change, availability of alternatives, management of intellectual property, scalability, stability, interpersonal drama, so on and so forth. A lot of it is even warranted. I will be the first to admit i tend to be a very negative person.  But I try to be objective about my...

Wow. That was some big news last night with the XStreet SL/OnRez acquisition by LL! If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out the LL Blog, where they announce that Onrez is closing within the month and XStreet SL is being worked in to LL’s existing services. ...

Decimating primmage at Sylvan I’ve been in talks with Spin Martin for some time about his sale of Saijo City. Some time amidst all the hubbub of the Openspace debacle (though I’m sure mostly unrelated), Spin piped up in a friends conference chat and said he wanted to sell Saijo. Why? Mostly because he was fed up with the limitations of SL as a platform for his Saijo concepts, and that it was pretty much time to move on. (Spin,...

LL cemented their decision on Openspaces recently when they sent out their email notice to Estate Owners on Openspaces. M’s final word? Graduated pricing, reduced resources, and a semantic ball and cup game in which everyone is a loser except LL. By the end of 2009, Openspaces as they are currently will be called Homesteads, and will cost $125/month. They will have a throttle of 20 max agents, as well as some scripting limitations....