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Vampire Lemons
Yes, I know. As I asid in the other post, I know that quite a few of the admin team are on our side and unhappy about how things are going, but surely there's a better solution to make both sides happy, rather than the "well aquarium generates gold and maybe you'll get lucky in DC, so get over it!" kind of responses. I don't remember which dev it was, but that's the gist of their reply to alot of complaints about it being cash only in one thread I saw. It wasn't that word for word, but it was a reply of "It generates gold and items from the clam!" which presents the problem of that when your starter fish die, if you don't buy it in the shop and dont have gold to afford the absurd MP prices for one fish that's going to last maybe three months tops and the DC never grants you one, then your aquarium becomes nothing more than a useless lump of code. You lost the gold and items that would have been generated during however long you lack fish to please.
For Durem!
See, I'm not so worried about them dying off. I haven't spent a cent on Aquariums, either in cash or in gold, and I've got about 13 fish already (two of which I've set to die in my tank of doom, since there's no way to increase the health of a tank yet), so I'll forgive them a small amount for that. But I can see what you're saying, and I agree with it. Paying real money for a toy that doesn't work in 2-6 weeks is unintelligent to say the least. If they'd made the expirable items gold, and things like the backgrounds and toys (which don't die on us) cash only, I'd actually have no issue at all. However, I'm digressing from the topic at hand and I'm sorry.
I think my problem is, while I can see some of the points made by the OP, and they're valid enough, I can't quite get up the same level of spleen. Like the complaints about ads, it's been pointed out a million times (probably not in this thread though) that Gaia can't pre-screen their ads, and there is a thread for reporting inappropriate and malicious ads. And they work- I haven't seen the breast enhancement ad in over a week. So, I hope the people who can fix things do see how many people are upset, but at the same time, they aren't omnipotent, there are some things out of their hands.
LET'S HUNT SOME ORC!
I love Gaia, I have for a long time. Even so, I'm sick of being unable to get the cool stuff without six months of questing to get one item or having to rely on donations frm friends whenever they get an extra bit of gold.
But I can live with that, I have the time and boredom to spare for questing.
What really bugs me is that they
don't fix glitches most of the time for days or if they do "fix" them, there's still sometimes problems.
Not to mention all of the useless new features recently.
How many people use GIM? I have over 100 people on my friend list, and the only one I've ever seen on the GIMlist whe I signed in to see how it worked was the GuildBot. When there were fifty "GAIA I HATE GIM" threads on
one page of the SF, it's pretty hard
not to understand that we don't like the feature.
I think it's bullshit to say "they can't respond to all ten thousand people at once" when that same ten thousand you claim they can't please all want the exact same thing from Gaia.
No, they won't ever be able to please every last person, and no they don't owe us everything, but again. They owe us the consideration to at least respond to our complaints and fix what they have the means to fix in a way that will please both ends.
And on the ads, I've gotten porn ads in the PM reply page once or twice. I've reported them, but haven't gone back to my PM page since I haven't had any PMs since then so I don't know if they're gone, but they shouldn't be there at all, since this is a PG-13 site. I've been on a virtual pet-site for young teens once or twice that
relies on ads as their primary source of funding who've done a better job of screening inappropriate ads than Gai has done lately. I can't say one hundred percent that's their fault that those things slip through, but from what I've been told about inappropriate ads recently, you'd think they'd ad least look into it.
