Kokuryuu
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- Posted: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:15:56 +0000
Self explanatory title 3nodding
But really, I was surfing Gaia today as I always do, when I realized - this site is beginning to well and truly depress me. A bit of thinking made me realize it's because I don't see Gaia going forward anymore, because I don't feel hope - for anything, really - anymore. The excitement has been drained, and now I come here because it's just... home, as it had been for the past nine years, and you don't require reason to go home at the end of the day - you just do.
Yet home is feeling less and less comfortable with each passing day. I'm reminded, or at least I feel - like no one is taking care of our home, and letting it grow dilapidated and rickety, without any intention of fixing things. Like we're just waiting for it to cave in on us.
Over the past few days, I've been exporing Gaia as I had never explored it before, trying things that I never took the slightest of interest in. I've gone back to trying things that I'd lost interest in, as well, like Jigsaw and manga; I've been trying to remember what glued me to this place so much.
But instead, in some way or form, everything seems to serve as a reminder that my home is slowly becoming.... stagnant.
Alchemy. zOmg. Fishing. Booty grab. MP (omg, the MP). Invo... All of these are core assets of Gaia, and all of these are riddled with issues, and/or are not being updated.
I really am trying. I know I fell in love with this place when things were so much simplistic, fewer games, the site riddled with errors, the items far, far less fine than they are now. That spark has to be in here, still. Somewhere...
At this point, I'm hanging on by my fingernails, clinging to the one thing I know I have left here. My trade on Gaia had been roleplaying since day one, and so long as my rp and my group are here, then I too shall remain - regardless of what Gaia (or rather, Gaia Interactive, for in some ways I feel like Gaia itself is just as much a victim to corporate as we are) throws my way next.
Let us be honest, here. Up until now, and even now, we've seen so many people leave, we have suffered broken features that aren't being fixed, we're constantly pushed to buy cash, and we've rode through the PM spamming just this past week. We get angry, we get sad, and we complain.
But for one reason or other, all of us here have chosen to still remain.
So, GCD, what keeps you on Gaia right now?
What is that last tether that keeps you rooted to this site?
** I'm sorry if this post seems bleak and pessimistic. That isn't my intent; I'm still actively trying harbor hope, and rekindle my love for this place. I only want to hear what helps others in this time, in hopes that maybe it will help me remember, as well.
But really, I was surfing Gaia today as I always do, when I realized - this site is beginning to well and truly depress me. A bit of thinking made me realize it's because I don't see Gaia going forward anymore, because I don't feel hope - for anything, really - anymore. The excitement has been drained, and now I come here because it's just... home, as it had been for the past nine years, and you don't require reason to go home at the end of the day - you just do.
Yet home is feeling less and less comfortable with each passing day. I'm reminded, or at least I feel - like no one is taking care of our home, and letting it grow dilapidated and rickety, without any intention of fixing things. Like we're just waiting for it to cave in on us.
Over the past few days, I've been exporing Gaia as I had never explored it before, trying things that I never took the slightest of interest in. I've gone back to trying things that I'd lost interest in, as well, like Jigsaw and manga; I've been trying to remember what glued me to this place so much.
But instead, in some way or form, everything seems to serve as a reminder that my home is slowly becoming.... stagnant.
Alchemy. zOmg. Fishing. Booty grab. MP (omg, the MP). Invo... All of these are core assets of Gaia, and all of these are riddled with issues, and/or are not being updated.
I really am trying. I know I fell in love with this place when things were so much simplistic, fewer games, the site riddled with errors, the items far, far less fine than they are now. That spark has to be in here, still. Somewhere...
At this point, I'm hanging on by my fingernails, clinging to the one thing I know I have left here. My trade on Gaia had been roleplaying since day one, and so long as my rp and my group are here, then I too shall remain - regardless of what Gaia (or rather, Gaia Interactive, for in some ways I feel like Gaia itself is just as much a victim to corporate as we are) throws my way next.
Let us be honest, here. Up until now, and even now, we've seen so many people leave, we have suffered broken features that aren't being fixed, we're constantly pushed to buy cash, and we've rode through the PM spamming just this past week. We get angry, we get sad, and we complain.
But for one reason or other, all of us here have chosen to still remain.
So, GCD, what keeps you on Gaia right now?
What is that last tether that keeps you rooted to this site?
** I'm sorry if this post seems bleak and pessimistic. That isn't my intent; I'm still actively trying harbor hope, and rekindle my love for this place. I only want to hear what helps others in this time, in hopes that maybe it will help me remember, as well.
