about every 6 weeks i post something about SL’s private sim growth. it’s an easy post to write thanks to Tyche Shepherd’s Grid Survey and it’s something that’s important to the virtual world community – its health does affect OpenSim to some extent
this time i’m looking at the last three years and the effect on Linden Lab’s recurring revenue stream. the vast majority of LL’s income is from private tiers
private sims have three tier levels but the proportion of them has stayed nearly identical over the last few years – about 55% from full sims and 45% from homesteads. openspaces count for less than half of one percent
- nov 29, ’10 – monthly private sim revenue of $5.052 million (average of $202/mo/sim)
- nov 26, ’13 – monthly private sim revenue of $3.975 million (average of $204/mo/sim)
the slight increase of average monthly tier is from the loss of educational discounts and grandfathered sims
- nov 29, ’10 – yearly private sim revenue projection of $60,624,000
- nov 26, ’13 – yearly private sim revenue projection of $47,700,000
the daily average loss is about 5 private sims (5491 sims/1094 days) and at an average of about $200 per month that means the recurring revenue stream is dropping $1,000 per day! *checks pockets & comes up with a washed receipt*
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as you know i’ve been watching this closely as well. you may recall last year that @rodvik pronounced that Linden Lab had annual revenues of about $75 million. how does that fit in with your numbers? looks to me like they have another $25 million or so in other sources of revenue, that is to say 2/3 of annual revenue is from land tier and 1/3 from other sources (Marketplace commission and Linden Exchange, etc.) recently i came across information that seems to indicate that Linden Lab has had a *very* high profit margin. that is particularly vexing to me since i believe their tier prices to be extraordinarily exaggerated. that high profit margin will probably carry them for awhile yet. in 2009 Secondlife had revenue of 80-100 million, and profit of 50 million.
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27 Nov 13 at 2:33 pm
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