Ask The Admin (09/16/2013)

[Sweet Angel Mary]

Beast Henshin

Sweet Angel Mary

lanzer

Sweet Angel Mary

Lanzer,

Is this the kind of website that you truly wanted to create?

I haven't really felt welcomed here on this site in the past few months. I tried talking to DJ about it at gencon though he totally misunderstood me. I'm one of those users who can only get cash from free gaia offers. So all this cash stuff is making me want to quit. I know fully well this is a business and don't need staff to tell me it's a business. It's b/c this site feels like a business that just wants money which is making me feel unwelcome. I come here for entertainment. I love getting on zomg and hanging out with friends. I love talking to people here. I even got gifted lucky and unlucky this past weekend. But all these bad business decisions and the people making site decisions obviously not caring about putting out an enjoyable product is making me think that quitting would be better. I know Flynn's booty made gaia a bunch of money but it also made my efforts at earning gold worthless. I don't like having a shop for exclusive items when in real life, I would even go into one of those pricey stores for overpriced clothes. I'm tired of the staff wanting backwings to be "rare" when you promised they would be accessible to everyone. They drop rate is so low on quest formulas that you'd have to spends millions upon millions of gold just to get one. There's also gaia abandoning one feature after another. I know you need money but management really have to drop updating guilds b/c they couldn't cram enough cash features into it? What exactly is the cash shop for if it doesn't help pay to update features. Zomg, Heralds of chaos, monster galaxy, alchemy, guilds, minigames, etc...have all practically been abandoned for years. Did you really want to create a website that never updates features? Did you really want a place where have the stuff your company makes is left rot? Did you really want a company where even L0cke couldn't be a part of its future? Is this really the place you wanted to create? A place where if you can't spend lots of cash per month, then you feel unwelcome and want to leave?

I understand that it's difficult to see advertisements of things that are not affordable, and if there's anything more that I can do, I would certainly do so. Trying to strike the balance between free stuff and paid items or features had been something we're constantly balancing with. I understand it's hard for any Gaians to imagine that we could be losing money with the amount of items that we sell, but the fact remains that when all salaries and administrative fees are added together, breaking even is a really challenging task. This challenge led us to not be able to upkeep many of our titles that could not fund the teams behind them. This trend is not exclusive to Gaia, but all over the gaming industry as well.

Gaia as a website is meant to be free for all to play and have fun, and that includes the forums, games, events, and the tens of thousands of items that are easily purchasable with small amounts of gold. We'll continue to release more free games and items with all the resources we have available. Funder or not, I really appreciate your support and sharing your opinion with me.

I'm fully aware that gaia has made some bad business decisions in the past about creating games that didn't end up being as profitable. But I think this having a sale every weekend is going to the extreme end of trying to make a profit. It'd be nice if gaia found a balance of being able to update stuff and creating new things and also balancing how much cash you ask the users for. It's just going a bit too far right now. I don't think making money is bad, but when it gets in the way of creating enjoyable experiences for users then it's just hurting gaia as a whole.

Gaia, as I feel, has always had trouble balancing pretty much anything. That recently that just seems to have gotten worse and worse.

but they never went insane with the cash stuff before. I miss the days when $50 was the max price they would charge.

[Valkyrie Gauge]

Is there a possibility old items like the original fox ears and tail and other items will be re-released in animated form or given a formula you can use to animate them?

[Tannsi]

Princess Angelishia

Tannsi

Is there any way to make donor status carry over, or change things to where if you spend a certain amount on a single item, donor status could somehow carry over? It costs $30 a year to keep donor (to keep ads away, to be able to nerf fully in zOMG - although I rarely do that) if I were to spend $2.50 a month. To be honest, I really can't afford to spend $30 a month on Gaia, so don't ask me why I spent $50 on a single item recently during a sale. There is no way I could possibly swing any more money for Gaia. I was kind of frustrated to see that despite going above and beyond what would be donor for a month or even a full year, that it didn't carry over or anything. Once this ends, I'll be dealing with sound and obnoxious ads again, despite shelling out $50.

With all the recent high priced sales, have you guys thought about extending donor status for larger purchases? The answer will determine how and if I spend money on this website in the future.

That's a good question. I can't make any promises, but I will look into it. c:

Thank you!

[Mr Petit]

Aleksei

Shadow Ra Warrior

Aleksei

*flops on people*

*bites*

Nooooo. I'm not food! crying

flops on you claw spot goes take a catnap ppppppppppppprrrsssssss

[xTu_NeNe]

is there going to be a 18 and older in another web for gaia? and if yes how will it work? and how can our items be able to go to that other acc. or w/e you guys are doing?

[Leasfy]

Can you please also adhere the matter regarding the removals of so many threads from ziF? I mean, wtf srsly?
A friend of mine was talking about ringset matter and using sarcasm but the thread is moved to chatterbox.
My sister was talking about how she and her other two friends were dressing up with banana man companion and it is removed to chatterbox
some threads are locked too....
WTF naziness?
What happened with this section of :

zOMG! Community Threads
Have a fun competition, event, or other community building idea pertaining to the zOMG! community at large? Events pertaining to the zOMG! community are acceptable in this forum. This includes, but is not limited to, in game zOMG! competitions, events, artwork and user imagined content. Keep in mind the community is large and diverse, try to appeal and get as many others involved as you can!

or this

zOMG! Discussion
All ideas and concepts concerning zOMG! are acceptable within zOMG! forum. If you want to talk about how the monsters look, how artwork looks, how the game will play, or any topic dealing within zOMG! and it's features, this is the place to talk about it.

So any related threads that inviting people to come to zomg and having dress up day will no longer be counted as community activity?
Way to go :C

please consider it properly. >:C

[Fortunatelyy]

Zero Omega

Hi! umm since I didnt get an answer before.. might as well try the trusty Zero to answer >.<
Umm.. just out of curiosity, how many warnings do people get before they get banned?

[Shannon-Jeva]

TokerkingNEW

Shannon-Jeva

Tamashii No Tomo

Minean

Are you going to release the Red Devil Miniwings any time soon?

Maybe. They've been re-releasing everything else.

Nothing is safe anymore.

envying you so much right now Y_Y emo

How come?

[Zero Omega]

colin mocherie

I have a question. Whwn will the Account Notices glitch be fixed? I get one every time I log in, and even after I try to unblock my e-mail address, it'll come back 15 minutes later.

Make sure to click the "unblock e-mail link" that you should receive and that should help. If not, file a ticket and we can get it figured out.

[TokerkingNEW]

Zero Omega

l The Huntress Artemis l

As employees of Gaiaonline, do you get an unlimited amount of gold or any item you want? Or do you have to work/pay for it like everyone else or...?

We have to earn gold like everyone else.

but you guys gain them 100x faster then us all Y_Y

[Uncle Kenny]

Arche Elf

So which is more likely to come out first:
A) Pets System
B) New Inventory Arranger
C) Marriage System
D) That new forum system where we upload pictures ...?
E) Crosstitch Winners
F) Halloween Event

Probably a tie between Inventory Arranger and Halloween Event with Crosstitch shortly after.

[Zef]

DJ Arrow

starzXnight

When will the next themed dress up thing for the staff be?
I loved posting and hanging out with all of you emotion_kirakira

emotion_awesome
soon

[bubbie333]

Has the Gaia Marriage thing been confirmed or denied. Also if confirmed when will it come out?

[Bobannan]

momo-ai13

Bobannan

Would it be possible to at least make Club Verge viewable by all of Gaia's members? I think it would be a considerate feature for Gaian's who like to keep up with the marketplace, are questing, or selling items. Also, it would be a good marketing technique for Gaia to display all the deals members could have if they were members of Club Verge, instead of keeping it secret.

I second this, not because she's my friend or anything..
I don't even know her.
Hi Bo. rofl
Seriously though, I really like this idea.

Hi heart I really need Gaia to implement this. Referring to Club Verge guides is really frustrating.

[DJ Arrow]

Pixitella

Please, You should stop posting that, posting it multiple times wont get it noticed since they go through every page anyway.
So just wait, if they dont want to answer it/dont have that info at this time, then tough luck.