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I remember a time when there were over 100,000 Gaians on at one time -- and it was a normal, daily thing. I would think that zOMG! had to do a great deal with the active Gaian population.

I admit it's strange that they would take down zOMG! considering the fact that more users means more advertisements viewed which results in a greater income from advertising.

Still without financial transparency from GaiaOnline we are limited to mere speculation. Staff claimed it had nothing to do with money which I tend to believe; it's not that I have faith or lack of in Gaia's staff, I just understand how the coding world works.

If the exploit required so much coding as claimed by Gaia's staff, the game would take significantly longer to download. Other issues would and could arise from excess code including significant additional lag. Of course that is also dependent on how many alterations are made to the client side of the code.

Again, all this is my own speculation; more specifically me thinking aloud.

Personally I feel like even if they had to implement a read only code so that people could play zOMG! for no rewards, GaiaOnline would still have the active user population they once had. I don't exactly recommend this option but I do prefer it to zOMG being nearly completely erase aside from what was transferred over to Gaia Towns 2.

I would subscribe to GaiaOnline again if it offered a beta to a game similar to zOMG! simply because I enjoyed making friends through zOMG!. zOMG! was probably and arguably the best way to make friends on GaiaOnline and without that GaiaOnline has become that much less social.