— An explanation from Gaia's upper management as to why so many GC items and offers are being released.
to make money and pay bills
— An apology for not doing something about inflation and constantly expecting us to pay real money.
they ARE trying, good luck forcing them to apologize for something they honestly have very little control over
— We'd like to know where the money we're spending is actually going. Is Gaia in trouble or is this for the sister site?
servers, techs, mods and admins who get paid by the hour, rent on office space, computers so they can code in new items and events and features, mail room clerk, secretaries, artists. security, brainpool for future items and events and features, productions of real life gaia items, booth money to attand events to host panels so you can MEET the people who bring us gaia(this normally includes hotel budget, food budget, airfare and passes for staffers), printing budget for gaia cash cards, advertisement, lawyers, HOURLY WAGE EMPLOYEES AND MANY MANY MANY MANY OTHERS THAT I CANT BRING TO THE TOP OF MY HEAD AT THE MOMENT!
— If there really are money quotas Gaia needs to meet, we'd like to be aware of this. It would encourage people to help and feel less used.
HONESTLY? this is no ones business, I dont see yall compaining about inflation in schools, in the work force, in bills or getting mad at gas companies and demanding to know what bills they have to prove they need the money you suck up and pay them every day at the pump...
— More information about the kinds of games and offers being worked on to make sure they're actually things we want.
its called forums, and ask the admin, and not a realistic desire, they do what they can by giving us surveys, beta testing things in trusted groups, and outright asking us, sometimes they get an offer too good to refuse just because you might not like it, and sometimes another company REVOKES and they have to take away things we liked
— For the new games like Smashblock, allow a large gold entry fee as a gold sink and include a nerf level or maximum number of tournaments you can win.
i totally agree on making it a goldsink, however putting a cap on how many times you can win is silly, thatd be like telling Micheal Phelps he has to give half of his gold medals back because the other swimmers deserve a chance too (and im not saying that cause i rock at smashblocks, heck i suck at it)
— Remove the GC option to promote threads and make them gold only as a sink.
this is ment to be a way to sink BOTH gold and cash, making it gold only defeats the purpose
— Make items from the Cash Shop and/or Club Verge worth a fair price of gold in Derner Cri or another shop.
i agree with this for ALL ITEMS, coming out with cheap easy to get cash shop items was great at first, but now its getting ridiculous with 100$ items that are only up for 3 days
— A promise to never release any of the Flynn's Booty or Flynn's Chest items again.
disagree
— Focus on a better balance between the quality of gold shop items compared to cash shop ones.
thats like telling walmart they need to be up to Tiffany standards. different stores will ALWAYS have different value and quality in items, yes there could be a shift of overpowerment, but honestly? the gold shop items have increased in leaps and bounds, give them time
— An increase in the low to mid-priced GC items (under 2,500 GC) instead of so many expensive ones.
agreed, they used to do a good job at keeping up to date and even event related items in the cheaper end of the cash shop, but it has become pointless to even look at anything under 200gc because they never update anything except the alchemy recipies
— More decent items available in stores in a high gold range, something like 100k to 1 mil.
id rather see this turned into a gold/item sink by incorporating it into alchemy, there are plenty of items that could do with an upgrade over the years, but item pointless to just add another item to the rack, i firmly believe some items need to be DISCONTINUED or pulled from the racks like real stores do, offering items on a calender basis, Halloween and xmas items disappearing from shelves randomly and such
— A better balance between gold shop updates and cash shop updates.
we used to have to wait MONTHS if not years for regular updates, now shops are updating by the week/season/holiday, im happy with gold shops, but cash shop items need to stay around longer to devalue them slightly
— Spend a month or so simply releasing Gold Shop items (other than MCs and evolutions of EIs).
YES
— Close down Club Verge and the Cash Shop (other than MCs and current EIs) for a month.
no, most of gaia is free to use,most of gaia also allows you to get rid of ads, cash shops are at this point, the main source of income for Gaiaonline as a BUSINESS that'd be similar to you telling big box stores that they are ONLY allowed to sell food provided by the local farmers market, the ends do not justify the means
— Get back to releasing more Donation Items.
monthly collectibles, or donation items, have ALWAYS been a 1 2 or 3 item a month raffle of sorts, i remember writing out my first money orders to go gaia when i was 17 because i wanted to help keep a site i loved afloat, i gave 100 a month like i was paying dues at a club, and when i have steady employment again, I will continue to do so, not to get a nifty item( because you have to admit some of them were crap) but because its something i can do to personally and DIRECTLY assist a company i approve of
— Bring user voting back to user-created items so Gaians get things they want put into shops.
i think we should get a vote yes, but not a final say, gaians make some WONDERFUL items, I think the first user created item was the Lunar scythe? but im not 100% sure, they worked on that for years and months and it finally finally finally got approved (again, lawyers, paperwork, copyright issues ect ect this is where your money or going!)
— Put better, Cash Shop item-quality hairs and eyes in the salon as a gold sink.
if it is JUST a hair or eye style, I agree, possibly limited time hairdos?
— Try to rouse interest in decorating houses/cars/tanks again. Release new items. Make these features worthwhile.
they ARE working on this i think, one of the number one thing about rally is that LOTS of those items and car bases are scion property and they have to get new permission to do anything to them. along with that they will have to completely RE CODE AND PROGRAM AND ADD GRAPHICS AND ASCETICS, this are things that a HUMAN has to do bit by bit, which means it could take YEARS this is the same reason they are not going to do anything new with ZOMG
— Bring community back to the site. An idea would be having the front page focus on NPCs and storylines rather than sales.
npcs and storyline were RARELY used on a day to day, they were catalysts for holidays and random events, storyline was in fact, used to create ITEMS and spikes in user traffic in order to generate NECESSARY AD PROVIDED FUNDS and as ways to see what gaians like or didnt like, they were at one point hoping to do ALL storylines in a video format, but the way it came out... well... lets just say for those of us who saw it we hold it near and dear but hope Gaia continues to WAIT until it is COMFORTABLE in providing this content to us (its kinda like the star wars holiday special, it was utterly horrible, but we still want EVERYONE to watch it...because its part of something we love)
— Do not have events revolve around items you need to pay GC for.
I do not recall this happening, ever, there were better grades available for cash, but i dont recall an all or nothing event.
— Implement a graduated tax system in the Marketplace so that more expensive items are taxed more to better improve the gold sink.
NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN items have a flat rate 2% tax because its too much useless work to code in different taxes based on the going prices, by all means, if you are a coding prodigy feel free to show them how to do it, but this idea shows you have no idea how money taxes or businesses work in the real world, let alone on gaia.
— Gain control of inflation by tying it into an event. Look
here for a more specific idea.
they've been trying....
— Quit re-releasing items and recolors of old, popular items for large amounts of GC. Items to spend real money on should be newer and better. Put recolors into RIGS.
thats YOUR personally opinion, and you are welcome to it, but back when these items came out, almost NOTHING matched properly on gaia because different people ended up coding different versions of each item, Im GLAD they are recoloring items to make them more versatile and to host a wider range of styles, i agree that the PRICES are unrealistically high though
— Start clearing out the perma-banned and other dead accounts that Gaia knows for sure will never be used again. It will save space and money (we assume).
* We are aware that staff have acknowledged and shot down this idea in the past due to technicalities, but it can't hurt to look again. *
too much work with no accrual benefit
— Implement a system where if users spend a certain amount of real life money, they receive a partial refund when Gaia bans the account for something other than profiting IRL from Gaia or threatening or other intense "crimes."
you dont get a refund if you go to jail for breaking the law, so NO you should not get a refund when you break the TOS of Gaia
— Reevaluate the importance of customer loyalty and instill non-GC related rewards for it.
YES
— Chance items should be gold shop items only.
wrong, a grab bag is a brag bag is a grab bag
— Close down the MP for a few days so that it can have a chance to reset.
it doesnt really reset like that, it'd have to be down for about a month, and then because the items have no listed value, people could slap on whatever high end price they want
— Put set pricing on certain, if not all, items in the MP.
MP is first and foremost an AUCTION HOUSE, items get a value based on what people are willing to PAY
— Make hoarding of large quantities of premium items a bannable offense. A serious warning system would have to be in place.
seriously? a bannable offense for BUYING items? thats the same as me saying it should be a bannable offense to make stupid suggestions that make you sound like a communist
— Bring back the Gaia merchandise shop so users can spend their money on real items too, not just virtual ones.
give them more of a reason than because i say so. I could agree to them doing kickstarter for EACH ITEM that way they ONLY go into production when the price of the items and shipping has been covered so they dont TAKE A LOSS and have items in storage units that cost money to rent because people never ended up buying them.....
— Be more reserved in the use of words like rare, exclusive, good investment or premium when describing items that are not.
yep
— Create or find people that can do GC offers for everyone internationally instead of for just US users.
im sure they will, just as soon as you pay the legal fees, make sure that Gaiaonline isnt liable for tax evasion or fraud, copyright laws in other countries, the fact that BUYING PIXILS (INTERNET ONLY ITEMS) IS CONSIDERED GAMBLING IN SOME COUNTRIES and therefore illegal
— Work on making more events available for everyone on an international level, not just US users.
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