I went to the SL22B Meet the Lindens meeting today, and right at the start, Patch Linden dropped a bombshell. He announced a new land product coming soon to Second Life called Ridgewood Enclave. He didn’t say it’s part of Bellisseria, just that it’s going to be separate and its own thing. That makes me think it might be a bunch of mini region clusters they can launch as needed.
Ridgewood Enclave will have both homes and commercial parcels. The plan is to release the homes first, then the commercial spots later. I’m so ready! Take my money! I don’t even have an in-world store in Second Life right now, but I still want to make a little office or something cute like that.
There was also a quick update that more Linden Home themes are on the way, a theme for Premium Plus and another one for all 3 subscription levels.
Another bombshell is that Second Life is not selling any Premium Lifetime subscriptions this year, which is kind of a bummer. Even though I said what I said in my last post, I know some people were really looking forward to that.
After that first question, I kind of blacked out. My brain was stuck on one thing: Commercial-themed land is coming soon!
Watch the meeting:
Hi Gogo, will you be rolling for one of the residential homes in Ridgewood Enclave? Or are you happy with your current linden homes? I’m quite excited to see what the new homes look like, but I do love my current linden home location.
Maybe! I hope they look good 🙂
With Ridgewood now apparently coming sooner rather than later (in September) I’m focusing again on this idea of “commercial lots”. Remember “Busy Ben’s”? This was the old Linden-run commercial area. I wonder if this will be giveaways to their insiders’ merchants’ list, or open for anyone to buy or rent. I wonder if rentals office will be allowed as a business amidst Linden homes!
I think I had not focused before — until re-reading your post now again in August — that ENCLAVE means it will be separate from Bellisseria. Linden-run, but like Horizons is separate or Bay City is separate, so will this. It’s not just another theme, and not just some Linden Homes areas made “commercial” perhaps to the protests of the home-owners if there is more script-inducted or traffic-induced lag. But…an enclave. You know, like Chechnya is described as an “enclave” within the Russian Federation….or something…