Hmm, I like the idea and hope it ends up being profitable for Gaia. Imho, in the last few years they've made the mistake of grabbing onto ideas at the last minute(greatly delayed battle system that missed a lot of the features users asked for, facebook games, apps, etc.) so they end up missing the big profit-rush and are briefly profitable before that phase ends and people lose interest. I think they do better when they're coming up with their own ideas and being innovative(evolving items was a genius idea, MCs, towns, etc.), rather than trying to catch up to other sites and methods of funding.
That said, I think games like rumble kitten, etc. are pretty awesome, but when they're not linked back to Gaia, it doesn't give us(their long standing customer base) much incentive to play and if they don't do much advertising beyond us, the people who otherwise might play never get to hear about these apps.
In general, I think it's for the good of the site and I'm interested to see where Gary takes things.
Edit: I think they need to focus on re-building Gaia's community as well, maybe a new sign up page and an advertising push >.>
Maggot
I just want to see the facial hair system finally become a reality since they're focusing on the site. emotion_donotwant
Seeing Lanzer's responses to you in AtA, I'm pretty sure he thinks you just
really want him to grow a beard
lol That would be a cool feature though.