WTF GAIA? A ~[Petition]~ to Bring it all back. [REOPENED!]

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Boycott Gaia's Cash and MCs on the date of (Undecided)	42.4%	[ 1034 ]
Boycott Gaia, the WHOLE website. Not even signing on for that date on (Undecided)	24.1%	[ 589 ]
Something else... >.>; [PM ME SUGGESTION] :D	6.2%	[ 150 ]
STFU. No Boycotts. D:<	27.3%	[ 666 ]
Total Votes:			[ 2439 ]

[smugg13r]

ive only been on gaia for lets say 2 years i think not so sure ill check later
but it has changed so much even from not so long ago.
before i would enjoy saving up gold and trying to see what i could buy
now all you have to do is go up to your mom ask for about 30 bucks and just go crazy buying stuff from the cash shop and selling in the market stare

it just ruins the fun.....i dont even really spend much time on gaia as much
before i would come and find new friends and just RP through PM's
even though i dont really watch anime or stuff like that i could find some good forums on games and such....now its all just like all like....for the "stereotypical teen" i guess i could say that..... confused
like the whole deal with the prom?!? made me laugh though xd sweatdrop

BUT I WILL SING!!
-Franky

[[Nuclear Panda]]

I am against the whole, advertisements on here, the Cash Shop does seem like a way for the site to gain money, but they would need money to keep this site afloat. Sure, things were easy back then, we all had goals to get some of those hard to get items which are easier to get now. I signed up in '03, but was hacked, and started fresh. I don't like how they've got all those retarded quests on here, i really dislike the fact that we have MTV on here. But, even after all that, i still like Gaia, and the complaints of wanting this or that, getting it, and then complaining about having what you just asked for, would probably become a little frustrating dont'cha think? I mean, if you don't like it and are only here to complain, why be here at all? If you hate it so much, why change it to make yourselves happy and others upset? I mean, i would rather them have it where it'll show the older version and the current [and future updated versions], both as options! i mean, everybody here has bitched and moaned about every new little piece they give you, be it great or, not so great. So, if you can't stand it so much, whatever is keeping you from leaving? Frankly, i would rather have the end of advertisements and pointless quests, and having more like the first one would be great, but since this isn't that type of petition, i can't sign, because i'd be getting more than what i asked for.

[Doshinimara]

I have never thought about spending money in the past to get some nice collectibles, I have worked hard to get everything I have, and now as others have said, you are expected to pay $15-$25 to get an item, or you wont afford it in the marketplace. I remember too at the time when the collectibles would come out and it may be lets say 10k (when I arrived in 05') now it is about 30k on average and in a few years it is up in the millions for that item. Even though it is the people that are causing in the inflation, but we are brought to the option of the cash shop to boost us up. I also know that inflation is apart of life, but how things seem to be, even with fresh items, it has indeed gotten haywire. Something needs to be done, and if that means sending things back to how they were in 03', then I will sign this petition.

[darkangel_6]

I'm going to start a Gaia Petition guild. Donations greatly appreciated. I hope Lanzer will stop being such an a** and get on with life...... Not that he already has... I always used to look up to lanzxer and vo and always thought they were cool People who made a website that I could relate to. Now Its just a stereotypical website for Stereotypical teens (as someone already wrote,...) I used to be on here every day, but I don't anymore cause of the stupid s**t theyh have came up with.

[Cadaverous Esthete]

All too true. I hope for this Petition to be very, very successful. D;

-SIGNS-

[xX_azn__demon_Xx]

i sign.
i've been on gaia for, let's say, about a year and 1/2.
i mean, gaia changed.
now, the shops sell crappy stuff, and the cash shop has all the good looking stuff.
the n00bs are now richer than the oldies!!!
i personally never used Gaia cash, but i actually made 100k unlike those lazy a** n00bs who take advantage of the money they have to literally buy gold.
i think that gaia cash is just like a bot, so why don't they ban it??

[x3xxxx]

I sign

C;

[sparxwonders]

Before the seasons flow away...

Signs.

I want to see you again...

[Ionics]

So ******** signing.
Gaia has only been going downhill from what I've seen.
The banning system, the new MP, all the recent hackings... you name it.
It all sucks.

[Exodus Fidelis]

Signed.

[+Kyoka-chan+]

This is such a long debated issue.

In ways, there's many things that I still love about Gaia, but there are many things that are certainly something that could be dealt away with.

I signed up in '04 but didn't truly become very, very active until later that year, possibly around late '05--simply because I was growing out of Neopets and its childish atmosphere. I loved Gaia for it's atmosphere--simply because it was more suited for teens.

And I can remember frustrations with the past website. As an '04 member, I can certainly remember all the database errors and glitches. The site seemed so nice to me at the time. However, as it's been debated, a lot of this 'change' we see in Gaia's atmosphere. I joined when I was a mere thirteen; of course I'm going to enjoy different atmospheres now. So for that, I partially attribute it. Those discussions that once seemed so awesome to us might seem now to be something too silly.

There are defiantly some wrong decisions that Gaia made along the way, though...

When I heard about the advertising, I actually agreed. Back then, I thought 'Hey, what can a little advertising hurt? It's just to help fund the site'. I hate seeing all these advertisements around here, though, hearing about movies that I don't want to see. Most of all, the MTV. Why, oh why? This is an anime site. Not an American pop culture site. This is the one place I thought I could remove myself from that horrid thing.

To those who are pretty crude to Lanzer and other Gaia staff, I do think you need to cut them a little slack. While, yes, trying to attract so many users is pretty bad, the fact that you think that Gaia is bidding for money only for greed is a little bit of a misconception. Look at all this--Gaia has fourteen million users, and likely billions of posts. Do you know how expensive it is to maintain webspace for that many users, with games, complete with forums and hundreds of different items for avatars?

A while back, I met a girl who ran a small fan-site for an anime. No forums. Just images, character guides, music, scans, et cetera. And she ended up having to close down her website because her webhosting could run around a hundred dollars a month.

Even with an affordable provider, Gaia's bills are high. Their original intentions were all right--providing their users with gifts while they helped support the site and keep it a free service for all.

Again, it just got out of control.

Why? I still believe in Lanzer the admin. I believe that he's crazy about Gaia still; I don't think he's obsessed about money or anything. If he's helping manage a site with millions and millions of users, though, there's bound to be decisions that are made that don't necessarily benefit the users long-term. It doesn't make Lanzer a bad person.

It seems like nothing really worth buying is out of the cash shop, and it is unfair that newer users can get rich faster than older users by doing what Gaia has always discouraged--pretty much buying gold.

We can all reminisce about a time in which we could spend 14k and buy a chyaku norisu scarf that's now worth almost ten times that. This part of Gaia won't come back. Part of the marketplace inflation is due to Gaia's sheer size. It's the law of demand. I'm sure that millions of users would like a chyaku norisu scarf. The simple fact is that there aren't millions of them. This is enough to drive up the price--to the point where people are paying over 100k just for a simple scarf. This isn't under the admins control, sadly. (The 2% tax that doesn't help inflation at all is, of course...)

I do wish for what can come back to come back, though.

I'll sign.

[X-i-lily-X]

i joined gaia about a 1/2 years ago, and it has changed a lot!!!
for the first year i joined, i didn't go on as often as now cuz i didn't have a computer back then and when i did get one, i was surprised at how different it looked 2 me!
i have a friend that got instantly rich even though i signed up before her.
and the prices of the monthly collectables and the cash shop items...
dammit the prices of those items are crazy, absurd, idiotic, stupid, inhumane, ridiculous, ludicrous, irrationable and i could go on forever!
the cash shop has nicer items than the regular stores do and the people who sell them at the marketplace put ridiculous prices on them!
i don't bother using gaia cash cuz i think its a waste of real money.
and from what i've read before i had posted this, it looks like the cash shop is mainly the cause of all of this.



i'll sign.

[Namine2914The20123godess]

signed.

[Macabre Marionette]

- [ S ] igned .

[GamaLine]

SIGN ME UP!


[omg looking at that made me realize how much i really do miss the old gaia, I cant STAND the new daily chance, and gaia's new cash shop makes me want to pull out my hair.... when did gaia become so selfish? and so self-absorbed!