It's hard for me to log on to Gaia these days. I feel like everything I used to love about this place is gone. We used to have this awesome website that has been around almost as long as Gaia Online itself, called Tektek.org. It was a huge archive containing all the items ever created on Gaia and their origin. Like for example, if the item you wanted came out of a monthly collectible letter, or maybe a pink link. You could also create your "dream avatar" and it would even show a range of how much gold it would take to get it, and a list of all the items it took to create it by name. There was also a temporary link so you could post your dream avatar and show it to all your friends, and other Gaians in the forums etc.
Next we have, zOMG!. Though zOMG! did not begin with Gaia from the start, once it came out, it became the funnest and most attractive part of Gaia Online. Let's face it, about 2 out of 3 Gaians love RPGs. Gaia gave us a kick a** RPG that you could play here, with all your Gaia friends. Not on your Playstation or XBOX with a bunch of strange weirdos you don't know, but with your Gaian friends! The very people you come here for in the first place. Then they go and take it away claiming that it's no longer safe because of the way the game code was developed. Something about there being a backgate through the code with access to every Gaia Online's usernames and passwords. Well Gaia, congratulations, you figured out there was a problem before anyone exploited it. Now get off your a** and fix it! Bring zOMG! back! It's the best idea you ever had, you know it's true.
Last thing is the marketplace. I used to be very good at buying low and selling high. But frankly, everything is so expensive now, and I don't have any of my old items from back in the day to help me get on the inflation level. It sucks to be new again after having made it so far. The only thing that's improved is the item limit per user that can be sold per each user marketplace store.
Gaia these days has turned into a huge money grab. Every. Single. Announcement. Is about encouraging you to purchase some kind of new and crappy item(s). The quality and creativity for most if not all of those items is gone. Probably because the developers are forced to come up with new items so fast that the creativity is sucked dry out of them. Great art takes time. But clearly that's the last thing these developers are getting when there are over 30 announcements per day, urging Gaians to buy freshly released items.
Gaia started of as a very fun place back in 2003. However, that Gaia Online has long been lost under a see of marketing and money grabbing plays. It's truly sad to come back here expecting many improvements, and seeing many mistakes and deteriorations, those which might very well become the end of Gaia eventually. Hell, this place doesn't even deserve to be called Gaia Online anymore. This place is now something else entirely. The original Gaia has long since passed.
Bunny Elf · Sun Oct 30, 2016 @ 07:00am · 0 Comments |