Mermaid Eater
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So It hasn't been 5 years since the thread started, but it has been about 4.
If you look at the thread you'll see that a lot of those users were correct.
so what about from now? GaiaOnline.com 2k17
Will Gaia finally finish the CoP?
Will Good ol Pete finally get a home?
Will Timmy finally turn back to a human?
WILL THE GD EXPAND AND KILL OFF ALL OTHER FORUMS OH LORD
Will everyone in GCD get angelic halo's because Lanzer got drunk and started gifting them to everyone?
who knows.
but what do YOU think will happen in the next five years?
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Gaia over the next five years, what will happen?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Case of Pietro will be finished this year. However, another EI will turn up that takes at least a year to finish even now.
Pete will probably become a multi-millionaire after discovering a previously hidden talent. He'll have to abandon it after he takes an arrow to the knee.
Timmy will remain an EI forever although somehow still make guest appearances now and again, especially in 2017 for the Gaia 10 year EI anniversary.
The GD forum will probably still be the same as it is today.
I think we'll all end up more interested in trading for the Backwings that are being worked on now than the halo. But who knows, maybe an obviously fake halo will come up as an April Fool's Day gift... like, one with strings on the ceiling or some other way to tell it is fake.
What Gaia will be like in five years depends mostly on how Gaia responds to its users. Assuming everything going on currently is still going on:
Premium/luxury EI's will go for 15 dollars instead of 999. Rare items will start getting sold every single year for $50-$100 a pop in the cash shop for a limited time, and despite all the complaining people will still buy them. Alchemy will still be there, but probably as a relic of the past when enough people just get sick of it OR if they finally release enough components to make anybody able to alchemize the first five levels which would kill the hoarders and their account value.
Site Feedback will still feature people complaining about Gaia and how their octo-core processors are being lagged by the coding in ZOMG. Most people using Gaia will likely be doing so on their cell phone, which by 2017 will resemble a mobile computer more than anything else. The interface to use Gaia on those new smartphones will probably cause more than a few problems as well.
Unfortunately for most, when the giant squids take over the world most of this will be irrelevant and you will all be in the salt mines!