loukhos
Lunel
I really don't understand how you can look at all the features this site has, all the people that are working on projects both current and future, think about all the servers that were bought for zOMG, all the bandwidth cost for that, not to mention all the money they put into creating it in the first place and yet still complain about money.
How much do you think servers cost? How much traffic does this site get daily? What about employees? You think they work for free?
All I see in this thread is people who are probably a bunch of teenagers who have no concept of money. the mmo playing experience is in no way hindered if you choose not to spend money on it. You can have a perfectly fine aquarium with just daily chance items, as well as a nice avatar. No aspect of this site is pay to play.
Your "we refuse to pay any longer" signature is hilarious. You refuse to pay? Do you think everything it takes to keep this site running is free? Honestly? Grow up.
I haven't seen anyone reply yet but, I just wanted to say that you've got it a wee-bit wrong there.
Most of the people in this thread
do want to pay. (At the least, that is what the thread is about.) It's just that we - or I - dislike the methods and manner Gaia is using to make us pay, the overall lack of communication, suchforth..
Please do not attack the persons. It is the opinions we are trying come to a compromise on.
Thank you for yours.
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To Loukos: Thank you for getting to this, I was looking for a reply too and hadn't seen one.
To Lunel: You are painfully mistaken. The majority of the people complaining about Gaia's increasing number of cash-only items are
adults with jobs. As in, the people with
money who
understand its value, and who understand the concept of being ripped off. I, myself, was 18 with a job when I JOINED this site. I'm now 23, and well versed in the value of a dollar.
You have a point about Gaia's employees and the costs to the site. However. That
does not excuse Gaia for continually ignoring errors on the site and allowing them to degrade, and instead, taking the money that we
pay them out of our desire to see the site flourish and use it on features that
demand more of our money instead of fixing the
free-to-use features.
When Gaia is not required to/refuses to give us
real numbers on how much their income is, I find it hard to believe they are so strapped for cash they feel the need to ask for more. They have already said the EI's are a minor percentage of their income (I believe it was much less than 20%), so why are developing EI's (which cost rediculous sums - I'm sorry, ten to twenty dollars for evolving pixels that turn into outfits that require you purchasing several of them in order to have a 'full set'? How is that not milking us?) more important than fixing bugs in Towns? In the Games?
To the people who keep saying it...
And I have trouble understanding how
fixing bugs in existing programs that previously were working correctly is so much harder than
developing new programs from the ground up. I would
assume that Gaia keeps logs of the modifications it makes to the site. Hmm. Releasing Gadget 56 seems to have caused an error in Gadget 2, which many users enjoy using on a daily basis.... Oh well! Let's just ignore that and work on releasing Gadget 57!
Seriously, what gives...? We're paying Gaia
out the rear for their pixels. I fail to see why our money shouldn't be spent on things that actually
matter to us instead of stuff that is either going to fail, or that is purely used as a marketing ploy to lure in new users (thus loading the site with
more data and eating more bandwidth). How is it cost-effective to continual bog down the site with new users who may not be
able to spend money on the site, when you have thousands of older users that used to spend
anywhere between 2.50 and 20 dollars each every month?
I'm also very much against Gaia's sudden streamlining of its appeal to try to bring in the Facebook crowd. I really, really miss the old Gaia.
And to everyone coming in to b***h at the OP or those of us who support this thread? First, you TOTALLY didn't read the entire first post or you would have seen that you were asked not to (or you did, and you're just a stinky troll). Second,
this is a FEEDBACK forum. If we're only allowed to kiss Gaia's a** in here, I'd prefer they change the forum title to "Kiss Gaia's a**". We're allowed our opinion and to request that our voices be heard. Just because you disagree doesn't mean you need to call us immature.
You are very much the ones in need of "growing up", it seems.
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