Antiq
Scobre
I've been on Gaia four years now.
Total amount spent: $0
Total amount earned through offers: I lost track, but I used to spend 250GC-999GC a month from video offers.
Do I regret being on Gaia? No, I met a lot of cool people.
Spending nothing of my own money on Gaia has been totally worth it. I'm still paying off my student loan from college.
You've really got it together
lol Kudos.
Nah I just joke that I was abusing the cash tree a lot and then started abusing the tv. Pretty much product I would buy the most were zOMG! ghi amps in a bundle. Those are a one time use then, so once all of them were used up they were gone. So my once a month purchase used to either go to powerups, MCs, REIs, EIs, or cheap item bundles. I never cared for CIs or RIGs. Oh I bought so many zOMG! summons too, they were so cute. I just try to set my priorities in life right. Gaiaonline isn't on the list at all, I just use this site for fun. Total amount spent on Sims games however exceeded $100 for sure over the years. I'm still able to use my Sims 1 CDs 14 years after buying them, so honestly I don't think it was a waste of money. But yes now that I'm an adult, I can't afford games anymore so I stick to the free to play games now. That's why just because Gaia changed isn't going to make me want to pay money towards them. Because of the ads, I'm so overdone in item advertisements now, I stopped caring for new items. Only things I like are gold shops because they receive 1 announcement in a month or less.
I was going to college full time when I started Gaia, so I didn't have the money to pay for items then between paying for classes, books, and transportation. That is when I learned I could earn GC through free offers. Over the past four years the offers fail more and more. It just makes me sad because Gaia hasn't figured out how to make the offers work for other countries besides the US or get alternative offers for them. Poor international Gaians. So if anything I'm lucky just being able to get offers working where I live in the United States. Now I'm not able to work as much due to health problems, so if I wanted I could still do the free offers, but Gaia just hasn't made the site fun enough to spend GC on it. I come on to chat with friends and to play zOMG!, so at least Gaia could increase their chat options available. If anything the social options have decreased with the removal of two im messengers and Vivox.
Anyway I hope my little story inspires other Gaians to know that they don't need to spend a penny to enjoy the site. I'm proof of that. All they need to do is find something on Gaia that they enjoy doing and stick with that and if they do want to spoil themselves once in awhile, check out if any sponsored offers work for them. Gaia will get the money whether someone pays for cash or they earn gaia cash through sponsored offers, so they should never feel guilty that they are not supporting the site. Even if you aren't able to dress your avi in any cash shop items, Gaians can still welcome new Gaians onto the site. I know that I met a lot of really cool people through zOMG! and it wasn't items that made me enjoy the site, it was the people. A kind word means more to a person than a material thing. I do still giggle at those pervy madlibs that were being sent out on one of Gaia's events. Silly memories like that last awhile for me.