Dear Admins:
I've always felt the need to ask this question because this bothers me a little.
Why are there no gold shop updates?
Gaia is seriously turning into 'let's favor the rich, forget about the poor'. I mean, if you want more users, you're really kicking a lot of them out the door. Give them nice gold shop items. The ones in there are really ugly considering the art of the items is a hell of a lot better. I know you guys just LOVE money pouring in from users buying CIs but give the newbies a bit of a starting point to feel apart of the users that look good with our fancy CI and such.
Probably will never happen but it's really the main reason people leave Gaia almost as soon as they join. Even if you don't want to update the gold shop. Maybe just revamp the items..? Subeta is a pretty big site (not as big as Gaia) but they still do things like revamps. Since you're looking for a gold fix, why not do the simple.
Bah, but a girl can dream. For others or not.
Also when I say rich I mean like gold-wise not irl money-wise although they both kind of co-exsist together. You have a lot of kids on your site who obviously can't buy cash often (like me who doesn't want to work yet).