The marketing teams and the people who do events/develop new content and glitch fixes aren't the same people, sadly. I like the monthly item RIGs that we have, but I do not care for or think that the other ones are necessary.
sad I wish that the marketing team would focus more on successful, clever advertisement than just posting announcements about things over and over again.
it's also a problem since it seems like these departments work absolutely independently of each other and don't seem to have any communication. o.o~ Last Halloween, UK made an awesome gold sink but then the marketing team released flynn's booty right at the same time which is counter-productive. People were speculating it was so Gaia could make more money off of FLynn's Booty, but UK explained that it was even worse than that... they just have such poor communication between departments that no one discusses when to release things in tandem with other parts of the site.
sad
I honestly feel like the broken parts of the site are being truly neglected, especially since in between new features it feels like absolutely nothing is happening. Lately we've been getting some new stuff, but no fixes to old things that desperately need it. I think it's kind of shitty of Gaia to hire new artists, but not to hire new developers and admins when it's obvious that they are needed.
I actually don't like the animal avatars at all. @_@ I think they're really cute, but I prefer the human base for myself. An owl one would be adorable tho!
Thank you! I really like your avi too!