Downsizing

Oh boy here we go sadly.

GridPlay is downsizing with a possible pull out of SL in the not to near future.
This also means SLDA is being downsized.

Why?
Linden Research Inc for the past 2 months have been more focus on making money then anything else. Yes i know a business is about making money but the way LL (Linden Labs) is doing it is right in everyone's faces. Yesterday's townhall announcement about the browser based viewer was the final straw.
For those who missed it.
LL is letting us TEST, i use test strongly, their new browser based viewer powered by Firestorm for a FEE of L$250 for every 5 hours.
L$250 for 5 hours to use a viewer that we get for free on our pc's. Philip Rosedale aka Philip Linden even admitted that it only costs them about $1.50 per hour to run the test.

Lets break that down.
L$250 costs $1.49 USD divide that by 5 hours is like $0.30 ya seems fair right? FOR ONE PERSON!
Now lets say 10 people fall for this scheme. thats $2.98 per hour, minus the $1.50 costs them, they are making $1.48 PER HOUR!
So ya its another cash grab for LL and GridPlay will NOT stand by idly on this any longer!

Another reason why we are downsizing is this..
While LL makes tons of money, GridPlay isnt, in fact debbie and I are paying out of pocket to keep SLDA going through tier payments and the server going.
OVH is our provider and its costing $74 CAD a month for me to keep the server going but only till june 9, we have till then to switch to a cheaper server.
Debbie is like paying almost a full region for tier to LL.

So thats why the downsizing. Ill update links to the new store as soon as i move it and put out notices inworld.

Thank you for understanding. -ven