Recently there have been comments and blog posts talking about the expected price increase of the tier rates from $195 to $295, SecondLife Insider has a post on it today, and the blogpost at Second Life says there have been many comments about it. Linden Labs said previously that the prices would be good through 2007.

After a town hall meeting with Zee, LL committed to giving residents a minimum of 60 days notice before they change pricing plans on them. This contradicts other reports that the inflation will occur in November. All signs point to some time after the 1st of the new year. It would be nice to receive clarification from them, though! Source: LL to raise tier rates from $195 USD to $295 USD “soon”

In a response on the Second Life Blog, Robin Linden says there will be no price increases in Q4, but you can expect a price increase next year, as they are already looking at it.

We have no immediate plans to raise the ‘grandfathered’ island pricing. This doesn’t mean it won’t change at some point, but certainly not in Q4.

We are evaluating changes to the configuration of premium /basic subscription models and to mainland tier pricing, but have no specific plans, and again, we don’t expect anything to change in Q4.

We are also reviewing some pricing changes on the LindeX associated with rolling out more international payment mechanisms, but the variety of global payment mechanisms make this very challenging, and we don’t expect any changes in Q4. Source: No Q4 Pricing Changes Planned

With the prices of computers and web hosting going down, you would think price increases wouldn’t be necessary, as they should be making more money per sim now, but I can’t say that for sure.

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