Let me be blunt.
Gaia's business model has changed.
The new model is that nothing of value will be attainable/available to the players without some kind of expenditure of Gaia Cash: either for the item itself, or for the gold necessary to buy it from some other player.
This is what the gold generators are all about: not only to generate income via Gaia Cash, but to make sure the prices of anything desirable can only be met by spending Gaia Cash.
Gaia does not give a damn about the economy. Or the Marketplace. Or Aquariums or zOMG or Housing or Rally or Games or pretty much anything other than selling the players items or gold.
If anyone is going to complain about this, they'd better have a watertight argument with numbers to back it up about how some other business model will provide MORE income for Gaia (real money) and make the players happier. Gaia is not interested in player happiness unless it means more income.
The rest is just noise.
No, it's NOT the Gaia we signed up for years ago. I don't think it ever will be again.
purplewiz · Thu Mar 20, 2014 @ 02:42am · 0 Comments |