Empress_of_Time
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- Posted: Wed, 27 May 2009 23:18:35 +0000
If you wish to sign this petition, please put "I sign" or "signs" somewhere in your post, otherwise, your signature may not be counted.
Sorry folks, but those are the rules and we have to go by them if we want this petition recognized.
Gaia, your users have been begging you ever since the Random Item Generators (RIG's) started coming out weekly.
We, the users of Gaia would like to see some action taken on our behalf. We understand that you are hurting for money, but so are we Gaia.
The state of the global economy right now is not a very good one at all, and the fact that you expect us to shell out $1.49 time after time after time for the remote possibility that maybe we will get that one item that we are hoping for is sending the message that you are milking your users for all they are worth.
Our request is simple, please place these fantastic and amazing items directly into the Cash Shop.
It is not right or respectable in any way to take things that users have begged for forever such as the Wink and the Sailor Moon hair and place them in an RIG and making the drop rates for them so small that they instantly inflate to over 1 million gold
By creating drop rates these small, you are in fact influencing the market prices, which is something you said you would never do.
Your users are in a state of outrage Gaia, what have you done to yourselves?
This is not just about the Gee Boi Turbo, this also concerns RIG's such as the Emerald Seed and Famestar.
Items such as the Mercury Moon have been artificially inflated to such an outrageous price that it will take an average or casual user months to get them, and to be honest, a casual user that is striving after something like that for months may just give up.
It doesn't make sense in any way for an item released today to be worth as much as a donation item that was released in 2003.
The message you are sending your users currently Gaia is that money is more important to you than anything. I understand that you are hurting for money, but your users are too, and to have the state of mind that "if we just keep releasing these things with small drop rates for incredible items people will just keep buying them" cannot be maintained for long. Eventually, people will wise up, people will learn that the drop rates are far too small for a pixelated item and they will stop spending money.
BUT!
What if you released these items directly into Cash Shop La Victoire?
An item, for example, like Gaia-Tan could easily be sold for 749 Gaia Cash, with it's multiple poses and the wink feature.
People would pay for multiples of this item Gaia! For example, if someone bought just 2 of the Gaia-Tan at 749 cash, that's approximately $15, you would have to sell 11 of your RIG's to make that up.
Does that make sense to you?
2 items compared to 11.
Not to mention you would make all of your user base happy.
How would this make everyone happy you ask?
Think about it, logically the people that don't mind the RIG's wouldn't know that it was meant to be in one, and they get an item out of it. The people that hate the RIG's would be happy that they have a nice new item in the Cash Shop that was not released via RIG.
Please Gaia, consider this. You know the consequences every time you release a new RIG, the Site Feedback forum is filled with nothing but hatred for them, with the occasional "ok so this RIG isn't so bad."
And before the defense of the single items in the Cash Shop not selling as well as RIG's comes up, those items are no where near the quality of items released in RIG's.
Place the items from RIG's directly into the cash shop and charge from them accordingly, you have no idea whether it would work out better for you economically because you've never tried it.
May I also take the time to say that Gaia, we love your items. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here asking for you to make them more readily available to us. Give us the chance to show you that we would buy these items from the Cash Shop.
If you agree with this petition, please sign.
Thank you for your time and interest,
Empress_of_Time
Sorry folks, but those are the rules and we have to go by them if we want this petition recognized.
Gaia, your users have been begging you ever since the Random Item Generators (RIG's) started coming out weekly.
We, the users of Gaia would like to see some action taken on our behalf. We understand that you are hurting for money, but so are we Gaia.
The state of the global economy right now is not a very good one at all, and the fact that you expect us to shell out $1.49 time after time after time for the remote possibility that maybe we will get that one item that we are hoping for is sending the message that you are milking your users for all they are worth.
Our request is simple, please place these fantastic and amazing items directly into the Cash Shop.
It is not right or respectable in any way to take things that users have begged for forever such as the Wink and the Sailor Moon hair and place them in an RIG and making the drop rates for them so small that they instantly inflate to over 1 million gold
By creating drop rates these small, you are in fact influencing the market prices, which is something you said you would never do.
Your users are in a state of outrage Gaia, what have you done to yourselves?
This is not just about the Gee Boi Turbo, this also concerns RIG's such as the Emerald Seed and Famestar.
Items such as the Mercury Moon have been artificially inflated to such an outrageous price that it will take an average or casual user months to get them, and to be honest, a casual user that is striving after something like that for months may just give up.
It doesn't make sense in any way for an item released today to be worth as much as a donation item that was released in 2003.
The message you are sending your users currently Gaia is that money is more important to you than anything. I understand that you are hurting for money, but your users are too, and to have the state of mind that "if we just keep releasing these things with small drop rates for incredible items people will just keep buying them" cannot be maintained for long. Eventually, people will wise up, people will learn that the drop rates are far too small for a pixelated item and they will stop spending money.
BUT!
What if you released these items directly into Cash Shop La Victoire?
An item, for example, like Gaia-Tan could easily be sold for 749 Gaia Cash, with it's multiple poses and the wink feature.
People would pay for multiples of this item Gaia! For example, if someone bought just 2 of the Gaia-Tan at 749 cash, that's approximately $15, you would have to sell 11 of your RIG's to make that up.
Does that make sense to you?
2 items compared to 11.
Not to mention you would make all of your user base happy.
How would this make everyone happy you ask?
Think about it, logically the people that don't mind the RIG's wouldn't know that it was meant to be in one, and they get an item out of it. The people that hate the RIG's would be happy that they have a nice new item in the Cash Shop that was not released via RIG.
Please Gaia, consider this. You know the consequences every time you release a new RIG, the Site Feedback forum is filled with nothing but hatred for them, with the occasional "ok so this RIG isn't so bad."
And before the defense of the single items in the Cash Shop not selling as well as RIG's comes up, those items are no where near the quality of items released in RIG's.
Place the items from RIG's directly into the cash shop and charge from them accordingly, you have no idea whether it would work out better for you economically because you've never tried it.
May I also take the time to say that Gaia, we love your items. If we didn't, we wouldn't be here asking for you to make them more readily available to us. Give us the chance to show you that we would buy these items from the Cash Shop.
If you agree with this petition, please sign.
Thank you for your time and interest,
Empress_of_Time
Updates:
arrow Even I can admit when I see Gaia trying. Thank you very much for you recent release of items directly to the Cash Shop Gaia. These fantasy items are beautifully designed, and Smok the Baby Dragon is something I would expect to see come out of an RIG. Really, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.
arrow Another RIG released. The Lonely Star to commemorate the 40th anniversary of space. This one is packed with some more amazing items. Such as the Kitten Star, which after having over 24 hours of release time, there is only one for sale in the MP for 20,000,000 gold. Prime example of indirect price interference.
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