Chibi Halo
Agent Sawbones
Now that you mention it, I haven't seen very many sponsor promotional tie-in quests like what they used to throw at
us several times a year in months. I thought Gaia decided to move away from that on its own, but it makes sense that they're trying to move on from it because they
have to: They aren't making enough revenue from ads and sponsorship tie-ins because the sources of that kind of revenue are drying up, so of course they might start pushing GC purchases a lot more.
When I came back from my hiatus in 2007 we'd get sponsor stuff left and right. It started with Mimsy and I think the last non pay Cash to get it deal that didn't give us some piddly amount of gold was back in March of this year and before that it was last year in July and those are for books by Simon and Schuster or Random House. We haven't had a movie sponsor us since The Woman in Black in 2012 and a non entertainment company since the Coke hangout in 2011 and our last video game sponsorship that same year. If we get a sponsor now it's for something we have to pay Cash to get because Gaia's just not making a lot of money on Sponsorships anymore. It's sad that they're forced to go this route.
And you know something else? They might actually be looking at bankruptcy. Oh, not any time within the foreseeable future, I'd imagine, but eventually, they might come up against a wall where pushing Cash isn't going to do it. It'll start cutting into whatever their profit margin is eventually, because, and Azphyxxiate can finally quote me as parroting them here, the money for running the site has to come from somewhere. Eventually, they'll have to declare bankruptcy not too long after that because their profits won't be enough to keep up with the site's total revenue needs forever. They actually might have to cut their losses and pull the plug at that time, which we'll get little to no warning of.
In short, Gaia just might be a slowly dying company.