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Seriously, this does sound interesting. :)

Thank you, thank you for listening so attentively to our fears and proceeding with your original game plan. Your desires for SL are indeed unfettered and in full career! We can only stand in wonder at your mightily clever moves to shaft….er, furnish us with such service.

I, of course, will be providing the necessary blood (decanted in crystal, I assume?) to ensure that from next year I can continue to log into your Great Service, since no doubt your plans to demand a pint of blood per log-in are now well in hand.

Pray tell, with the wonderous rush into the 2D splendour of “immersive experiences”, when can we expect the joyous return of the Hair-up-bum results of inter-region Teleporting? This has so sorely been missed that we are certain you’ll have it earmarked as a sure sign that one more, you are delivering quality services to your suckers….er, residents…

However, enough of this. I’m off to exhume my grandmother to ascertain the whereabouts of her birth certificate so that I am not one to miss out on this marvellous offer from you….

I continue to find amusing the widely mooted idea (both here and in less steam-driven and more Bolshevik environs– hello, Mr. Neva!) that Homestead regions are the “original product”. They are in fact what Dr. Frankenstein Linden’s collation became, once subjected to the Electrical Force of cut-rate landbarons manqué.

Insofar as I can see, the “original product” continues to be offered at the original price, with the original terms…albeit such terms will actually be *enforced* now, the strategy of prevailing upon Everyone’s Inherent Sense of Fair Play and Green-Griddedness appearing to have fallen to footpads and highwaymen.

Meanwhile, the Adam of Herr Frankenstein’s Labours has been given his own space in which to be, and his own price to be paid for being there.

von Moltke’s observation about plans and first contact has been proven again.

Thank you :-)