SECOND LIFE IN 2022 - PREMIUM ACCOUNTS AND LINDEN HOMES... IS IT WORTH THE UPGRADE?
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- čas přidán 17. 02. 2022
- In this video I talk about upgrading to a premium account in Second Life in 2022, and whether or not I think it is worth it! For more information, head over to this page: secondlife.com/premium
I also mentioned my marketplace store where I sell virtual, modern wall art, and I would be extremely greatful if you could check it out! :) marketplace.secondlife.com/st...
Quick Note: My second life username is Richard Castillo. In the video when I was exploring the linden homes/marketplace websites, you will see the name 'keiron enzo' is logged in. This is not my account, but is my brothers account. As he does not have premium or a linden home, it was a lot easier to use his account to explore the upgrade options. - Hry
I’m new to SL and I decided to go with Premium as well. You make a good case for it. Good video!
I have a premium account, as I love the Linden home communities, and you don't have worry about your neighbors build weird stuff.
Hey, I totally agree! :)
Great video. I've been paying quarterly for ages I may upgrade to annually didn't realise there was such a big discount. I actually get a stipend of L$500 per week but I think that's due to the fact I've been on a while and they changed the pricing structure or something and if you had joined early on the stipend didn't change. Didn't realise there were upgrades for the homes, that's a nice touch. I do wish full sims were cheaper though I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Hey! Ahhh you're one of the lucky ones who kept the $L500 per week, that is the dream!! Yeah there are so many upgrades for the homes, they make such a difference. Totally agree about full sims, I'd love one but can't justify paying for one (just yet!).
This is exactly why I got premium plus. Over about a year and a half I was busy, distracted, doing other things and I kept having to log on and pay rent to the Chungs for a home and a store, unless I wanted to lose all of it. Even though I wasn't motivated to do anything with either of those things. Then, suddenly, I actually felt like being around in Second Life, and I decided once and for all, I was moving everything to mainland, getting premium and building my own house on a linden lot. Now, if I disappear for 6 months, I don't have to worry about some landlord coming onto my store and returning random items COUGH COUGH freakin Chungs
Heyyy! Chelsea here. I'm surprised to see my name there. :o Glad to see you uploading again! :3
Premium sounds great! Right now, we don't need a home and rarely buy lindens so we're skipping it for now, but we might get it once we've decided to start our pregnancy journey in SL (Imagine having a baby without it!).
Some suggestions for future videos:
1. Your top favorite furniture and decor shops
2. What other things do you often do on SL, aside from grid drives?
3. Visiting hotels/resorts?
4. Best beginner-friendly places
Hey Chelsea, totally understand your poimts. Ooo that does sound exciting, definitely can't be leaving your baby in the street! Those are some super suggestions, thank you :)
THANK GODDDD YOURE BACK!!!!!! Dude! I’ve been legit checking on the reg to see if you were still around!!! VERY glad ur back!!! Ur videos always make me smile a huge n genuine AF smile! WELCOME BACK & THANK YOU!!!!
Hey Thorne!! Aww thank you, I know it's been way too long, but I am definitely still around :)
I think going Premium is a great idea. I think people that do should pay yearly. It is cheaper and less hassle. I do wish LL offer premium members more stuff. I looked and in the US monthly is only $11.99. Crazy you have to pay more.
Hey! That's really interesting. We have to pay 20% extra on sims (if we buy from Linden Lab), so I wonder if that is the same for premium. Is annual still $99? :)
@@castillogaming2691 Yes, it is as of June 2022.
I think the 11.99 is good for me lol
some cant afford to pay out one lump sum
Thank you for sharing this great video! have a nice week end.
Thank you, have a great weekend also! :)
You forgot to mention that you also get a landscaping pack with your house
And we're would you get this
I had no idea about all these benefits of a premium accounts! Thanks for explaining it all. I have been in SL for 16 years. Never thought to getting a premium account as I'm a sim owner and could not see any advantage paying LL more $$$, But I think that I'll look into this maybe try it for a least a year and see what, if any, advantages there are for me.
Thanks, I have premium! Love hopping around and decorating different homes. I have been on SL 11 years. I love seeing your videos. I got an add on but I have a problem with changing colors in the rooms. I think at one time you could click each room to be a different color but I think that option is gone now? My add on I can change the color inside to match. I love the addons! Hugs
Helpful and easy to understand 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Eu acho tão fofo você falando! Adoro seus videos
Prio entrance to shopping event sims are a SUPER great bonus. So many newly opened shopping events are just. .full for days and days and days.
Just about to upgrade to P+, it's only about £6 a year more expensive than my current SL rent but with over £100 of L$ a year too and other benefits. Your house is beautiful!
Great video ty! I wonder when they will be rolling out Premium Plus and what the will entail. I have always had Premium and I pay yearly for it, always have. I also receive a $500L stipend per week...I think that is a big perk. The housing has come a long way and although I rent a parcel with my hubbie...I do love my stilt home. I would love the option to rent out my home...weekly/monthly...it would give newcomers a chance to experience that or give some residents a mini vacation 😂
Hey Alexxy - I didn't even know Premium Plus was an upcoming thing, so you have taught me something new! Love your ideas of the renting out the home (although SL forums seem to hate the idea!), and lucky you for still having the $L500/week!
Another benefit of premium - is the ability to buy land on mainland. I buy and sell aloe of land in SL. Premium is a must for me. I agree with all your points and calculations you made in your video. Spot on! Annual premium fees is the cheapest option. Thanks 🙏
Hey Joe - Yes that's true, is the market still good for buying and selling mainland?
@@castillogaming2691 yes it is - for me atleast - I buy and sell a lot of mainland - but only moderate and general category lands. I buy from LL auction and scout for abandoned land. Then sell at a reasonable price. There are some crazy prices lands for sale out there. I monitor a few and some are sitting for months unsold for the hefty prices.
I sell about 20-30 plots ranging from 1024 to 8192 every month.
For me it’s not a business but more a hobby of buying and selling land. Negotiating and making a sale.
The beauty of SL is you can do anything you want as far as your imagination will take you.
Negotiating and making a sale shouldn't be mentioned if it's not about business for you. That being said, its perfectly fine to be a shark.v
Like you just said you enjoyed business without realizing it XD
Now they are updating to Premium Plus. Can you do a vid on that please?
Hey! At the moment I genuinely don't see the point in premium plus, I don't feel like the additional benefits are worth paying that much. If I change my mind, I will definitely make a video on it
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Thank you for explaining , after watching your video I got the premium yey..but was looking for the add on , which on did u get on marketplace
I usually buy two premiums, let go of my Linden homes and buy land instead. The 600L a week stipend (from two accounts) helps me to not overspend. I don't have to use my credit card at all the entire year since rent is paid for, and the stipend is enough for me to live on comfortably. If I didn't go that route, I'd end of spending hundreds more a year
I don’t have premium. I breed cats inworld so a home with 351 prim is not enough for me. I like my cats to roam around so a bigger piece of land is needed for that. Therefor I rent a quarter of a sim and sinds that is expensive i don’t want to pay even more by getting premium. I love your video’s by the way, it’s very usefull, i learn a lot from them.👍👍👌👌
Hey Monique, I’m glad you’re finding the videos useful! I totally get why you don’t have premium, the plot would definitely not be big enough for that, the cats would be demented! 🤣
Thanks for this video I was wondering what will be the difference. May I ask what program you have been using to stream and record videos.
Hey! I just use GeForce to record my game and then use my phone to record the video of myself. I then use iMovie to combine the two videos and to edit :)
@@castillogaming2691 thank you
This video helps me a lot to make a decision about premium, but, May you solved a question? The Houses it's full decorate or do I have to decorade room by room?
They come unfurnished, so you decorate each room however you want to 😊
Hello !! Nice video kiss!!
Thank you! 🤗
TBH I'd get Premium just so I can jump into full sims to me that is a huge selling point, ESP if you attend to various events. . . . Though this is only worth it if you actively run into fully populized sims.
before the gacha ban. Gacha event's would be full during the first few days on launch. having Premium makes a huge difference since you had a lead on the market and could sell the gachas for profit. Since non premium members couldn't tp to the event some would just go to the MP and buy the rare or whatever. To me Gachas were a huge selling point for content creators and for LL too. Since resellers would sometimes sell an item for 800L$+ on the MP just for a rare due to the RNG drop rate. And LL would always get a cut of that.
There really isn't a reason to have premium just to bypass full sims. IMO unless you know that you are actively going to a full sim at least 3 times a month. Then I guess maybe it would be worth it in that regards.
I do know that you're only allowed to have 1 Animesh object equipped to your avatar. 2 if you have premium. Again not really a big of an upgrade.
Sign-up bonus of 1k but you only get that if you have an active 45 day premium membership. That's nice but it basically means you need to sign up for quarterly. To qualify. At least to my knowledge.
I would say that Quarterly is worth it, Annually not so much. At least to me. Since you never know. You may be in the mood to log in for a few weeks. Then get burned out and go on a hiatus. Something may happen "Good or bad" and that you may not be around Secondlife To me November and December and part's of January is holiday family time for me at least. And well I'd use up whatever premium I have left. And just not renew it during that time period.
To me premium is situational. Do you like your linden home land? and do you not want to lose that? then go for Annually, set money aside and keep that land as long as you want. Do you need a temporary escape and to get situated and if you decide that you wish to take a break from SL then perhaps go for quarterly especially if you are known to be online rarely due to RL / Work / etc.
I dunno how you get the land instead of the linden home
Hey! You just need to go into search > land and choose mainland and buy a plot that is 1024sqm 😊
Hey your video is very informational, I made an SL tutorial, is it okay that I linked your video in my video description?
Hey Lux, of course :)
The day Premium Members have their payment discounted from a full sim rental, I will get back to Premium
Very interesting Carlos. Is this something that second life used to offer?
You can't "own" a sim unless you have a premium account. If you are renting a sim you are doing it through a third party and most likely paying more
@@mmears9496 Unless you are from the EU - Then we have to pay a 20% tax on top of the land, so it can sometimes be cheaper to rent from a third party
@@castillogaming2691 Regarding Full Sims, Is always cheaper to rent from a Landlord, and here is why, before comments start poping - because we are not paying the 23% tax above monthly LL fees, we are not paying monthly premium and we are not paying a massive initial setup fee... Plus, you can start renting a full region by just paying the first week and than pay along the way, weekly or even daily, as money comes along... People must do the real whole math, before saying it is cheaper from Linden Labs, IS NOT...
@@castillogaming2691 Nopes, they never did that, cheers
Hello, I recently watched a video you did about 4 mo. Ago about Gianos RP Sim... I rented a home on the same street ... Alley Way.. I cannot rez my objects to decorate my house.. someone help. How do I join the group?
Hi Maria, contact one of the following in SL: Azeral Adamczy, DG Jaxxon or Mandy Giano - They will probably just need to send you a group tag :)
@@castillogaming2691
Thank you...And thanks for the heads up about the sim. I love it there :)
can we opt for an empty lot?
HOW MANY GROUPS CAN YOU JOIN WITH A BASIC MEMBERSHIP
50 :)
some people cannot afford to pay out one payment thats why it split monthly , some have to work hard for there cash have to pay bills
Hey! I totally appreciate some people cannot afford to pay it out in one payment, I'm sorry if it didn't come across that way! The point I was trying to get across was that it's much more financially beneficial to pay annually than it is to pay monthly. I do also work hard for my money and have to pay my own bills, however that is why I save up across the year in order to be able to pay the annual fee so I receive the discount :)
How do you do to reduce lag in premium areas?
I'd try turning down your graphics, especially render distance :)
How about Premium Plus?
My girlfriend is getting me a premium plus for my birthday gift soon
Bb ❤️ kisses
Is Second Life a game? 🤔😅🙏
No, it’s not a game, it’s a virtual world with lots of things to do.
@@DulceN oh cool maybe i check it out sometime ....
It's still around and still full of mystery and wonder lol
@@castillogaming2691 damn i had no idea NO IDEA how is this possible 🤣
@@castillogaming2691 someone should document this through videos i think ... maybe even interview avatars behind the work and all that .... not sure why nobody is doing this
I've been a member of Second Life for 15 years now, and a content creator for 5 years.... after all that time... i really wish i had something good to say about it.
Gotta love a developer that refuses to do anything to help/defend a popular content creator when someone is BLATANTLY stealing and reselling their designs by means of a copybot viewer, while publicly bragging that they're doing so... yet goes out of their way to spy on consenting adults and ban them without warning if they happen to be discussing a topic they dont approve of.
Tip to all the copybotters out there.... LL doesn't give a fuck about their content creators anymore, go ahead and steal EVERYTHING you can. unless the creator of the item happens to have an active copyright on their work, LL will do nothing to protect them or punish you. they're too busy playing Blade Runner, banning people for "thought crimes" to be bothered with protecting the income streams that pay their bills.
Hey! Ahh this comment sucks to read, I'm sorry to hear you feel that way. I can't say I have personally say I have noticed a lot of these things, as I tend to just use SL as a recreational activity, but I do hope these things are sorted out for you.
That looks like a PS2 game in 2001
are can to take precize house on precie location or just recieve random house in some region?