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Magical Girl

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I love it.
People leave gaia and come back to complain about the gold.
Rather than the reduction in quality of post and discussion.
Was it ever really that good, though?

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CuAnnan
I love it.
People leave gaia and come back to complain about the gold.
Rather than the reduction in quality of post and discussion.
Was it ever really that good, though?

Not that good.
But better than this.
CuAnnan
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Suicidesoldier#1
4-chan broke our market system. emo
You Maniacs! You broke it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Does that come from somewhere.
Yes. The Simpsons.

Are you sure you don't mean planet of the apes?
Yes.

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Suicidesoldier#1
4-chan broke our market system. emo
You Maniacs! You broke it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Does that come from somewhere.
Yes. The Simpsons.

Are you sure you don't mean planet of the apes?
Yes.

That's not where it comes from.
That's where it was later used.
It comes from planet of the apes.
CuAnnan
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CuAnnan
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Does that come from somewhere.
Yes. The Simpsons.

Are you sure you don't mean planet of the apes?
Yes.

That's not where it comes from.
That's where it was later used.
It comes from planet of the apes.
You're no fun emo

Dapper Genius

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The20
You're no fun emo

I'm on pain killers.
I'm not capable of my usual nuance.
If this is causing inconvenience or miscommunication, please bear with me.

Magical Girl

CuAnnan
The20
You're no fun emo

I'm on pain killers.
I'm not capable of my usual nuance.
If this is causing inconvenience or miscommunication, please bear with me.
I hope you feel better.

Dapper Genius

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CuAnnan
The20
You're no fun emo

I'm on pain killers.
I'm not capable of my usual nuance.
If this is causing inconvenience or miscommunication, please bear with me.
I hope you feel better.

I'll acclimatise.

Fanatical Zealot

The20
Suicidesoldier#1
4-chan broke our market system. emo
You Maniacs! You broke it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!


Shhhhh! ninja
You're completely right, Trinity! I'm back after a four year hiatus; some of my items are ridiculously overpriced now and I'm still trying to figure out exactly where they stand in such an inflated market. This, of course, is the result of Gaia's Pay-to-win option.(I'm certain that most of us expected Gaia to make this play eventually, though.)

I'll agree that the Pay-to-win option has been detrimental to the markets, and definitely the boards. When I started on this site in 05 I was young and naive. I definitely wasn't interested in posting to the forums, but it quickly became a necessity, because back in those days there were no other ways to make a sizable amount of gold. Sure, this was just asking for me to post useless content, but I eventually got the hang of not being too annoying!

The real killer though is that the forums and the marketplace both taught me SO MUCH about economics, supply and demand, inflation, hyper inflation, market manipulation, ect... This gave me a huge edge in school and has actually been why I've chosen the field of economics as my life pursuit! I have Gaia to thank, and all of the great users I met along the way.

I'm quite sad to see that in my absence Gaia has essentially made the marketplace an entirely different beast due to the fact that as you said, anyone can just buy gold at any time; this defeats the purpose of gold as a currency IMO, because if a user is going to spend money on a MC, what will stop them from purchasing a few packages of gold? That is a TON of market advantage right at the user's finger tips...
But you have to pay the price...

I'll probably stick around as a Happy Merchant, and to chat with users and such, but it will be very interesting to see where the marketplace ends up due to the insane hyperinflation!

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It seems that everything we love is destined to change into something we either hate or become ashamed of, like the little girl we cared for as a child but are now filled with shame when we see her whoring herself out to multiple guys.

Dapper Codger

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What happened?

Nothing. Its been the same, shitty website its always been.

Take off the rose-tinted glasses for a minute.
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Suicidesoldier#1
4-chan broke our market system. emo
You Maniacs! You broke it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Does that come from somewhere.
Yes. The Simpsons.

now look it up for me and bring it here so I can see
I'm an old man mind you, I can't walk all the way to youtube and back like I used to
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Suicidesoldier#1
4-chan broke our market system. emo
You Maniacs! You broke it! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!

Does that come from somewhere.
Yes. The Simpsons.

now look it up for me and bring it here so I can see
I'm an old man mind you, I can't walk all the way to youtube and back like I used to
See a few posts above.
I just came back after almost 4 years away, and there's so much that's different it's overwhelming. It's hard to navigate, I can't find a forum with a discussion that appeals to me (not to mention there's a sub sub forum for everything), and the inflation on items is at neopets level.

I feel like an old man shaking his cane yelling at kids to get off his lawn.

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