OCCUPY GAIA :: SAY NO TO BUYING GC

[piyuu-chan]

Judging from MP which is bound to only really have half the real number (as people usually go to exchange... and also keep for themselves),

At least
5 dj studios headphones (15k GC),
15 purchases of red devil miniwings (10k GC),
5 purchases of azrael's wings (10k GC),
5 purchases of lucifer's wings (30k) and
5 azrael's wings (10k GC).

At $100 per 10000GC, that's $100*(75+150+50+150+50) = $47,500 easily in the last week(..? haven't been on the site much for obvious reasons) or so from one-off purchases from individual users.

And that doesn't even cover the 25 lamenting lucies bought, the angelic halos, in-excess-of-1000 flynn's chests bought since last month (estimated by sales per day - there were 500 sold on MP alone on day of release lol) and 4000+ flynn's booties (over 4000 sold on MP on day of release...)

Really, the community does it to themselves.
And yet they ask for it to stop rolleyes

[Sahri]

Doesn't Lanzer, one of the founders have an ounce left of his power to put a stop to these practises? Or did he sign over his powers to the CEO/COO from Hell?

[JamesWN]

Quote:

Make hoarding of large quantities of premium items a bannable offense. A serious warning system would have to be in place.

Exqueeze me? stare I'll collect and keep as many items as I want.

[Silver Sunreaver]

Paying Gaia users generally spend about $30 USD every month to purchase Gaia cash.
Even those under the age of 18 can now safely spend cash thanks to the agreement with Virtual Piggy inc.
This means that 26 million new users are added to the pool of funding!

We can't ignore that fact that Gaia Interactive is now a leading company in its own market. There's money to be made!
Since the coming of cash I must admit the artwork has taken a leap forward. Items have multiplied like hyperactive bunnies.
But they haven't been succesful in choosing the future road of success (heck, even this thread is proof).
The current commercial status drives them and makes them cut down anything not profitable enough.
The old crowd is starting to get fed up and leave and the 'new' crowd isn't as rooted to the site as the small community was.
So I don't really expect Gaia to live for another 10 years.

What does it cost for Gaia to run a year? About $25 million. Seems like they have more than sufficient funding for it though.

Gaia Online had raised $11 million in a third round of funding to merely complete 'zOmg!'.
I was stupid enough to spend cash on Heralds of Chaos cards as I loved the game. Which is now deleted and not refunded.
Monster Galaxy was another game I supported, only to have my beloved Moga's deleted as well.
The terms of service cover it all, of course, but I have lost my trust in GaiaCash.

..Yet they dare complain I use Adblock to get rid of an unoriginal dying way of old-school advertising.

Also -- Remember the implementation of the quest system and their promises of 'fun'?
Quests on Gaia are now dedicated to profitable promotional purposes. Granting items related to sponsors.

Gaia Interactive must keep striving for new features and originality to stay on top of its competitors, I get that.
I know I am sort of a bad user 'sabotaging' financial ties with AdBlock and no longer trusting cash, but it has come to that point now.
Either they figure out long term plans once and for all, or I may log off some day and never return.

[xRaive91]

JamesWN

Quote:

Make hoarding of large quantities of premium items a bannable offense. A serious warning system would have to be in place.

Exqueeze me? stare I'll collect and keep as many items as I want.

What? You can be banned for what Gaia pretty much intends on you doing?

And yeah. When I get an item worth 100k+ (heck, even 50k+) I'll be darn well keeping it for a good long time.

[x3rubiachica3x]

Rizrazzle

Paying Gaia users generally spend about $30 USD every month to purchase Gaia cash.
Even those under the age of 18 can now safely spend cash thanks to the agreement with Virtual Piggy inc.
This means that 26 million new users are added to the pool of funding!

We can't ignore that fact that Gaia Interactive is now a leading company in its own market. There's money to be made!
Since the coming of cash I must admit the artwork has taken a leap forward. Items have multiplied like hyperactive bunnies.
But they haven't been succesful in choosing the future road of success (heck, even this thread is proof).
The current commercial status drives them and makes them cut down anything not profitable enough.
The old crowd is starting to get fed up and leave and the 'new' crowd isn't as rooted to the site as the small community was.
So I don't really expect Gaia to live for another 10 years.

What does it cost for Gaia to run a year? About $25 million. Seems like they have more than sufficient funding for it though.

Gaia Online had raised $11 million in a third round of funding to merely complete 'zOmg!'.
I was stupid enough to spend cash on Heralds of Chaos cards as I loved the game. Which is now deleted and not refunded.
Monster Galaxy was another game I supported, only to have my beloved Moga's deleted as well.
The terms of service cover it all, of course, but I have lost my trust in GaiaCash.

..Yet they dare complain I use Adblock to get rid of an unoriginal dying way of old-school advertising.

Also -- Remember the implementation of the quest system and their promises of 'fun'?
Quests on Gaia are now dedicated to profitable promotional purposes. Granting items related to sponsors.

Gaia Interactive must keep striving for new features and originality to stay on top of its competitors, I get that.
I know I am sort of a bad user 'sabotaging' financial ties with AdBlock and no longer trusting cash, but it has come to that point now.
Either they figure out long term plans once and for all, or I may log off some day and never return.

New users aren't committed, because they join Gaia, realize they can't obtain nice items without GC, and leave. There's really nothing left on this site, anything that was good has been abandoned. The only thing that's left is forums...

[Dekkoid]

Part of me kind of wants to see this site vanish.

[Nexialist]

x3rubiachica3x

New users aren't committed, because they join Gaia, realize they can't obtain nice items without GC, and leave. There's really nothing left on this site, anything that was good has been abandoned. The only thing that's left is forums...

Have you seen the state of this forum lately? I'd be mortified to ever post in the GD, the GCD is a depressing place, gaming is full of idiots and spam, and ED is full of pseudo-intellectuals circle jerking each other.

[Kodako Takabe]

I sign.

[Aurasan]

There needs to be a way to buy GC with GG, and to set the ratio in such a way that either inflation would vanish.. or the person would just go buy GC with their gold and buy it from the site.
Yes, this would counteract the entire idea of giving money to the site.. at least for those of us with tons of gold.. but then I don't give the site money anymore anyway. Just my .02, it would fix a lot of issues and go a long way toward stabilizing the nearly nonexistent economy.

[Lulu Senpai Mule]

Tell them no and guess what? they don't care.
If Gaia care what we think, this shouldn't happen.

[PhideIity]

piyuu-chan

Judging from MP which is bound to only really have half the real number (as people usually go to exchange... and also keep for themselves),

At least
5 dj studios headphones (15k GC),
15 purchases of red devil miniwings (10k GC),
5 purchases of azrael's wings (10k GC),
5 purchases of lucifer's wings (30k) and
5 azrael's wings (10k GC).

At $100 per 10000GC, that's $100*(75+150+50+150+50) = $47,500 easily in the last week(..? haven't been on the site much for obvious reasons) or so from one-off purchases from individual users.

And that doesn't even cover the 25 lamenting lucies bought, the angelic halos, in-excess-of-1000 flynn's chests bought since last month (estimated by sales per day - there were 500 sold on MP alone on day of release lol) and 4000+ flynn's booties (over 4000 sold on MP on day of release...)

Really, the community does it to themselves.
And yet they ask for it to stop rolleyes

Yes "Part" of the community did put themselves in this crazy gaia spiral towards hell. However, obviously, the users in this forum are not part of that percent. Sure a couple of us may have bought Flynn or some new items at some point, but that was before we all realized that Gaia online had turned into greedy B@$t@rds.

However like you said, a good chunk are causing this. I'm not quite sure if it is newcomers or just morons who don't understand market values. Though, Gaia is the farmer. They're feeding the community poisonous fodder. It's sad that I can compare a lot of the community to mindless farm animals : and it is sad that Gaia is willing to abuse them