[COOL IDEA] Stop Selling Features, Sell the Benefits! 🚀
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[COOL IDEA] Stop Selling Features, Sell the Benefits! 🚀
Linden Lab is doing it wrong. They sell boring features instead of juicy benefits. Premium gives you a "free" 2,048 sqm limit, but the second you want a bigger plot (like my 8,704 sqm chunk), that perk vanishes and you get hit with full tier fees. Boo!
Let's make land ownership fun, addictive, and profitable. YAY!
[🔥 IDEA 1] The Premium Land Credit
The Feature: "You get 2,048 sqm free."
The Benefit: It becomes a permanent discount on any size land. Own an 8,704 sqm plot? Knock 2,048 sqm off the bill and only pay for the remaining 6,656 sqm. Instant monthly savings!
The Retention Bonus: Because this credit applies everywhere, people are way less likely to abandon their small parcels or aggressively downsize their lots just to force themselves into a rigid, lower tier bracket. They keep what they love and keep paying! YAY, no more small abandoned plots of mainland all over that Linden does not know what to do with and auctions can't sell!
[💰 IDEA 2] Per-Parcel "Tier Boosters" (The Flipper Button)
The Feature: A "$5.99/mo Booster Pack" button on your dashboard for any individual lot.
The Benefit: Landlords and flippers don't need 50 annoying alt accounts anymore. Own 50 lots? Click the button on a plot, pay the tiny fee, and instantly slash that specific lot's tier cost. Every time a flipper buys land, they click the button and say "YAY, more profit!"
[📊 THE REAL TALK] Why Linden Lab Needs This Now
Second Life concurrency is stuck floating between 40k and 44k users. Why? Because the "small guy" landowners and flippers are tired of getting squeezed by rigid brackets, so they bail out and leave plots abandoned.
By giving players flexible savings, they won't feel forced to panic-sell or dump small parcels just to stay under a tier limit. No more ugly, abandoned eyesores littering the grid that just sit there forever because even the auctions can't get rid of them!
Treat your players like business partners! When people feel appreciated, they stay on the grid, buy more Mainland, and spend tons of L$. Turn land management into a fun game with booster packs, stop the bailouts, and let's all make some money!
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Lettie Linden
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Idea #1 is exactly what happens with a user who has any of our Premium Memberships. The land bonus is added as a separate lease to your account. The tier charge is only for anything that exceeds that amount. So if you own 8704 sqm, with premium plus you pay $31.00 (plus applicable taxes). Putting aside the fact that you can't own mainland without a Membership, the same 8704 sqm would cost $60.00 plus taxes if you did not have one. The 6656 sqm that is left after subtracting the 2048 sqm costs $31.00 plus taxes without a membership - the exact same amount as the larger parcel with your membership!
I am not certain I understand your idea #2. Can you please elaborate more?
Ikaros Alpha
Lettie Linden However, in 2008 I learned almost everything in the welcome areas with my first avatar... except the idea of creating a group and profiting from that 10% "group bonus". Took me 3 years to find out about it.
Jelly Doll
Lettie LindenYou're debating someone's "helpful" AI bot.
Lettie Linden
Jelly Doll: Unless proven otherwise incorrect, I will always assume the best of people. There is always a possibility that someone may not be able to express their thoughts in a way that makes sense to others, and may be using AI as an assistive device :)