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Post: 41309765_1 created on Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:18 amPosted: Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:18 am
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It doesn't hurt to try, does it? From right now, I'll have to start from a random page. School's started and My Brain's barely focused anymore. While you're on the front page, press the "F3" key on the top of your keyboard, and type your Username into the Search bar that appears on the bottom of your window to check if you've already signed. [: If Your name is not on the list and you would like to sign, please post your signature again. [: ATTENTION:: This is a petition, not a debate thread. Just a notification. And if that wasn't clear enough:: "WE DON'T WANT A DEBATE." And also, DO NOT post if you want to argue with us about the petition. I am absolutely sure that what you are going to say will be the same as what everyone else said. So please, save it. If you have any complaints or questions PM me, do not complain about bullshit like how "this thread is a bad idea." STFU or PM me. ![]() Dear Gaia, ~[ C o n t r o l ]~ /| ~[ Y o u r s e l f ]~ Does anybody out there on this wretched website think that Gaia is slowly dying? You oldby's surely see that Gaia isn't what it used to be. It went from an incredible website, into a money-hungry s**t that doesn't even care about their members anymore. There's been nothing but item updates for their degrading "Cash Shop", and their not even trying to fix Gaia's problems. I still see a green glitch. There are still many hacked members that haven't received there belongings back. There are people that have been wrongfully banned and Gaia is obviously too busy thinking up more shitty items that they can make us buy with our actual money. Unlike all of the other petitions, I don't want a new item. All I want is Gaia to stop making such a disgusting, vile Anime and RP website. Yes, that's right. Before all of this s**t Gaia was for RPing and forums. Now they've got games, those damned ads, and they are more money hungry then ever. Did you know when the first MC, the Angelic Halo, came out only people that donated out of the kindness of their heart received it? They were never informed that they were to get a reward. Which is why they are so scarce. And now that they're using that to advantage, with the Cash Shop, and MCs, things are only going to get worse. Intro / Screenshots / Signatures / Banners / Affiliates / Quotes / Things to Change / Reserved / Other && An Amazing Quote from an Amazing Person Itami Gaia has been falling down since I joined in 03. It has made strives to improve itself but in each step it seems to be dropping things or ignoring problems. I remember when donation items only were 2,000 gold, now their unreasonable in gold value. I have always been up and down with Gaia feeling on the verge of leaving and yet I'd meet someone cool or Gaia would do something I thought "wow thats awesome" but lately, that is quite lacking unless its a glitch (like the giant rampaging robot for last summers event.) The quest system becoming a sponsorship quest system was kind of bad but I carried on feeling Gaia to be greedy but not too much that it would bug me. Three donation items in one month began to push it, but I smiled and bared it when it happened. The cash shop drove a spike into this however, as it began to push the idea that we couldn't get things without paying Gaia. It no longer became donation items but monthly collectibles. Now the evolution items are dragging things down even more. I enjoy collecting them, but the pace and the trend of pricing is getting to be very horrible. We don't even see a $3 one anymore but instead we have to feel lucky to get a $5 item pushed into the cash shop. With the rate that they do these items and the lack of more timely normal store updates its getting very sickening. They don't force us to get these items, but every interesting thing we want such as eye items, back wings, skins, most weapons, the evolution items, and now active items are being pushed into a pay to obtain thing and with the marketplace and inflation so bad theres no way some can afford it unless they pay or have untold sums of gold horded. This was all just how I felt the greed lately, not including very bad decisions and lack of communication or the rash of unfair banings. They pushed the announcements out doing double posts twice this week. First they had to re-send the faunzy hoar post with a very little bit of new information, much of which wasn't the main concern. Instead of addressing it, the announcement pushed the same "buy it now!" feeling. The evolution report didn't need to be reposted even if some didn't view it, it just was a very bad thing. This isn't even getting into the fact that the urn is not only $10 but was released before that weeks report which leads to more greed feeling and bad decision making. Most things to be known on Gaia are said by a random dev/admin in a topic and they place it onto us to go look it up or read their journals instead of posting an announcement. Meanwhile however we get an announcement about time magazine putting them in a top 50 list which isn't much of a list and instead of just being happy they gloat and do an elitist post saying "we are the best and we know it" then linking to the voting so they can ensure they wouldn't be stuck in the #25 position in a very low tactic. I must also mention the label maker, aka stick the users in the eye with a sharp stick and laugh because it wasn't intended for us to enjoy but to send out and get more people on the site. Theres a lack in professionalism yet Gaia wishes to be seen as a professional thing now and not just something out of Lanzers basement. Gaia is turning into a site only interested in two things it feels like. Making sure they get more members, and making it so those members buy things with cash. As stated, anyone with $10 can easily make a lot of gold quickly by selling in the marketplace. I've been on Gaia since 03 and while i'm not an active poster or do every thing on Gaia every day, the most i've had is 360k which only lasted a short time as i've had to spend it to keep up my enjoyment of evolution items, which I now can't get anymore as its just too expensive. I could barely keep up with donation items every month, but at least as a casual user I could. Finally, on the note of activeness, this last month i've had insomnia at times. As a result I have been posting and being much more active than usual. That is, until I went to post (not refreshing) and I was blocked for a short time from the site for being too active which is fine if it was to stop botters, but I was loading a different page in and it says nothing about bots, only for me to stop being active. Further a very good friend who donated a lot to the site and helped me out was banned. The reason is they said she botted, but their only proof is that she was too active one day with over 9000 page views. It is a big number, but if your up 24 hours and enjoying the website should you be banned for it? She is still fighting the ban, but it seems they won't review the issue and are telling her she is out of luck. In summary, Gaia wants loads more money than ever before while not giving a real good reason to why. They want as many people as possible but if your too active your punished. I'm in fear of being banned for even stating my dislike of this sort of thing or being too active on the site. This year Gaia has done nothing good to me except ask for more from it's users while providing the best things to those who pay. They skipped traditional easter and are using the battle system as a defense. I don't subscribe to the idea that the battle system after having little to no work for years is suddenly draining so much from Gaia. I don't subscribe to the idea that more poses = it should cost more money. I don't subscribe to the idea that mini sets = a proper donation item. I don't subscribe to the idea that we should shovel money at Gaia so it can turn a decent site into as big a thing as they can. I'd like the anime/videogame feel to return to the site and move away from Gaian High School (Prom? Come on!) I'd like better communication from them and not to the point that we have to hunt it down and I'd like there to be less of a greedy feel being given by the cash shop. I'd also like to not be afraid of being active or else iIm punished. Ended up kind of rambling here but to the point.. I sign Go To This Post |
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