Linden Lab Offers Exclusive Sandboxes to Premium SLers

With even famed sites like Insilico leaving Second Life while other private sims leave the grid at a rapid pace, Linden Lab needs new ways to shore up its revenue base and convert people to becoming monthly Premium subscribers. The latest benefit is a smart one -- more exclusive sandboxes:

First up, we’re proud to introduce 5 new Premium Sandboxes! Like other Premium sandboxes, these are only available to Premium members. We have allocated 4 new regions for cross server code testing, perfect for those multi-region experiences; the Blue Steel, Magnum, LeTigre and Second Life Main regions are each Premium sandboxes arranged directly adjacent to each other in a square... The fifth new region is called: Sandbox Premium Weapons Testing which, as the name suggests, is dedicated to testing your SL munitions! In the past, weapons testing was done in general sandboxes where it was prone to overcrowding, griefing and instability. It was very difficult to get testing done. Now we’ve opened up more space for Premium members to test their combat gear in a less disruptive environment.

Second Life's sandboxes have always been the best part of Second Life -- when they're not overrun with resource hogs and douchenozzles, that is. Adding more premium sandboxes to Premium accounts are a great way to create exclusive social spaces for established users.

And Zoolander approves of the sim names.

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[Carlos Loff]

Squeezing the dying chicken for a few more golden eggs

[sirhc deSantis]

Not to worry Ser Loff, as you have pointed out over at HGB these are not valuable people, being SLers and all :)

[Pussycat Catnap]

There have been premium sandboxes in SL for years. Is there anything new to these ones?

And this is a reflection of the disjunction between SL devs and users - that reflects that Hamlet might be more inline with the devs in some regards.

SL Sandboxes are not that popular with the users.

Yes they have traffic in some of them, but its small. Most people who use these things just use them to rez out big sets of prims and find something...

Builders use their own land. Premium users use their own land. And non-builder premium users tend to want a home and or shop, and not much more.

I don't see any problem with them adding Sandboxes - though they already have so many that most of them sit empty almost all the time...

It is not "the best part of Second Life" though. :)

As much as they annoyed me, Linden Homes are where they user demand is at.

[Aliasi Stonebender]

I dunno, the public sandboxes are usually fairly busy, right until some wiseacre decides to rez some kind of viewer-crashing thing. The Premium sandboxes are nice just for that... and they're useful to build, too.

But then, I remember the bygone age where pretty much everyone in SL at least did a little building, even if they weren't 'pros'.