Monochromia
Throttle Kitty
This is terrible, I hate it. Gaia is so thirsty, but wants it all for free.
I mean, on a personal level, I probably shouldn't be pissed. I never bought them anyways and I made a quarter of a quadrillion off this bonehead decision because of how unstable it made GC's price. (I happened to have over half a million in cards on me when they did it)
But, if anything, that's just another reason for other people to be pissed. Like stupidly gaia-rich users like me needed another 250 trillion for free.
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y'know, i could maybe use some of that 250 trillion...
on a personal note, i've not once subscribed to whatever Gaia's subscription service is. which is kind of stupid because i do spend money here pretty often. more often than i probably should tbh
i dunno, i'm just not a huge fan of that sort of model. the way i see it, i already spend enough that i should just get perks outright, and i'm sure there are others who share this opinion.
as for paywalling the gc cards, ffs, gaia, if you're going to do that, leave them in c9 permanently and remove the tax.
i'm not a huge exchanger, so i'm not as in touch with how this kind of ******** will affect the economy, but i can't imagine it's doing the economy any good. i get that there will always be haves and have-nots, for lack of better terms, but the wealth disparity on this site is pretty ridiculous. i mean i like to think that i'm doing alright, but then we have Throttle Kitty here making ******** bank and even i'm balking at that sort of wealth.
will this stop me from buying gcash? probably not. i'm still not subscribing, though.
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it ended up being like 300t
cat_gonk I hate to say, it's not even a lot of gold to me...
You're very right about the "haves and haves nots" of Gaia! It's a real issue. I was (and am) basically trying to present myself as a walking example of that. It's gotten worse and worse over the years, and I think it really discourages spending on this site. I care more about that than making some gold. I know I have no need to spend on this site when Gaia turns one little knob and make amounts that would cost me hundreds in spending. Is it weird for me to be kind of annoyed by that? I liked at least pretending I earned my gold.
People tend not to spend as much when the disparity is so harsh.. The people on the bottom feel it's hopeless, and the people on the top mostly feel they have enough already. It's just not a great atmosphere if you are wanting spenders to feel like they accomplished more with their spending than "better than just wasting it on trading cards or mictrotransactions!"
And yeah, I think if they are going to put them in cloud 9, at least take the tax off and leave them in there constantly. I honestly feel it's a weird and not very good choice. I don't really think anyone would buy the subscription for that. It was fine how it was. The tax sucked but was necessary. (I was one of the people suggesting it, when they considered taking the cards away altogether)
All I care is that the GCash cards exist, and do still come into the system. If they try to remove them altogether, it will totally crater the economy. Making them rarer just... well, it won't help.