How would you improve premium subscription accounts in Second Life? Tom Hale new Chief Product Officer wants to know. You can comment in the forums and yes you have to login with your Second Life user id to comment.

Why is Linden Labs asking about improving premium accounts?

Well as Massively pointed out premium subscription accounts (paid accounts) continue to fall in October.

Even though Linden Lab CEO Mark Kingdon claimed that premium subscriptions were a small part of the overall business, at about 81,400 accounts and at least $6 per month (many pay more depending on land ownership etc) this is at least $488,400 a month or $5,860,800 a year in income (and probably double).

And that is nothing to sneeze at.

So how can we improve premium accounts and start them increasing again?

Improving Premium Accounts in Second Life

Here are some suggestions others have made to me:

1. More benefits such as hosting space/email addresses

2. Free uploades

3. Changes to tiers

4. Increases/New stipends

5. Benefits for long time users

6. Bonuses and Gifts/Drawings

7. Group benefits

8. Better support

9. More tools

10. Upgraded Server Capacity

11. Higher Prim Limits ETC

12. Better profiles

13. Bring Back First Land

14. Increase Group Limit

15. More script benefits

16. Increase Attachment limitations

17. Premium Classified Ad Positions

18. Better Preset Library Options

19. Improved Inventory Management and Backup

20. Change IM capping limits

21. More Communication

22. Avoid VAT pay for UK residents

23. Work Open Spaces into the deal (no full island first)

24. Mega prims

25. Contact Managemetn System Improvements

26. Better Exchange Rate on LindeX