The latest increase in price forced by Linden on their user community is completely outrageous. A few months ago Linden started to sell openspaces with the motto that one could buy a sim for a low price with increased prim usage. People bought these new openspaces in massive amounts and in good faith from Linden. People wanted their own island in Second Life for an affordable price and for a momoment they were thinking they did. Untill today that is when Linden suddenly deceided to raise the tier price which is the rental price that Second Life charges to their residents to own an openspace. Today Linden announced out of the blue that they will increase the tier for sims with 67% for no reason at all, just because they want to collect more money. The result of this will be that many people can't afford their tier fees any longer and cannot take the large increase in fees for the openspaces and will abandon the land without a compensation or refund. It's a good thing that new virtual worlds like http://www.virtualworld.sl are coming online. These open grids which are based on the award winning Opensim software will offer people a new home for an affordable tier price to have a virtual life.