Where is everyone???

[Pandalias]

I remember years ago there was this big number on the top right corner of all the Gaians online, now its like a ghost town! I wonder around the worlds, and for some reason Town isnt working but the second one is, the nature tree thing is gone, i loved that. Glad to see Hollywood is still around, but NOBODY is there, or just a few people, but they dont do much. What happened?? Did Gaia die? I'm sad now. And I was also hoping to find an active group to help me catch up in ZOMG.... Guess thats not happening... I'll stick around for a while in hopes people come back on, if not... guess I'll give up again for another few years. So sad... I used to love this site, it was addicting. Also how can I find the game booty grab?? Not showing up in people's profiles for some reason, I remember liking that game as well but its not in with the games in the tab up top, I don't see why it's not there....

[rheostatic]

All the places you listed are flash features, some of which might not have fully recovered the great server migration that happened the end of October and others (especially zomg) are just not as popular as they use to be with all of flashes issues as a dying.... thing (is language the correct term? Idr). So yes, on theses particular places, Gaia probably looks more dead than it is. It's not as alive and kicking as 10 years back but it's not a ghost town. It's just these features are less popular, mostly due to their difficult nature to upkeep and they keep bugging out. If Gaia gets back on it's feet financially, it plays to make a towns 3 in html5 which will allow it to run in your phone!

[Pandalias]

Oh thats cool the phone thing, Still though, when I went into the town, middle of the day, there was only like 42 people in the town, like 3, not including myself, in hollywood, which used to be my favorite hangout place, and roaming around ZOMG nobody was around anywhere, till when i was about to log off, like one person was just standing there for a couple minutes lol, idk, just bummed it's not as popular anymore, hopefully they work things out financially and get this site running again! smile

[Anatase Argent]

Lots of people rage quit when Gaia stopped with their outrageous GC sales and others just got tired of the administration's bullshit (Past and present.)

[Junice X]

People have quit. This site has 4k logged in users at its peak time lol

[fhuk it bai]

Anatase Argent

Lots of people rage quit when Gaia stopped with their outrageous GC sales and others just got tired of the administration's bullshit (Past and present.)

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Junice X

People have quit. This site has 4k logged in users at its peak time lol

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[Parodius-Daryl]

Sorry! I had to spend yesterday at the hospital and most of today at the store. I haven't spent much time on Gaia lately but i still come every so often biggrin

Not much going on with Gaia at the moment. I guess the V-Day event should bring a few people back?

[Arashisora]

Pandalias

Oh thats cool the phone thing, Still though, when I went into the town, middle of the day, there was only like 42 people in the town, like 3, not including myself, in hollywood, which used to be my favorite hangout place, and roaming around ZOMG nobody was around anywhere, till when i was about to log off, like one person was just standing there for a couple minutes lol, idk, just bummed it's not as popular anymore, hopefully they work things out financially and get this site running again! smile

zOMG! traffic picks up considerably during Easter and Halloween. You can also find people gathering outside the null at Gold Beach in the evenings. Like Lake Kindred, I think a lot of the people who used to play feel like they've gone about as far as they can with what's there; others, like me, are just casually farming for badges and don't have that same sense of urgency. Feel free to stop by the Dev Meats on Fridays. Most go to hang out but, you might find some who want to form a crew.

[Sianserais]

You also have to remember that the average age of the user base has been rising. A lot of people have college, jobs, and/or families now and just don't spend as much time here even when they're still around. Plus, it's hard for a forum to compete for people's attention with so many other things to do online anymore.

[Philippa May Regnard]

A majority of the userbase just got older and either had other things to do with their time or their interests just changed, so they left. The biggest population booms on the site are really during holidays when users know that Gaia will be hosting events.

[Grins]

We're still here just doing other things then hanging out in towns. Now its forums and getting items. Just gotta find yer zen and what makes you happy,

[Slick Southpaw]

Really depends on what forum you're in, some are livelier than others.

But I'd agree with others that site changes, for better or for worse, contributed to the loss of users.

Not to mention early on we had a shitton of bots for the longest time, creating an artificially high population online.

[Ouja Akuma]

The age group is getting older, people are getting their accounts banned for no reason, the events aren't as fun anymore, games have been so outdated it's not fun anymore, the inflation, Goldemort, etc. Lots of reasons that contributed to the decline but imo, once they get a functional mobile app, I'm sure it'll introduce people to this site and bring people back because lets be real, not many people want to spend hours on a computer anymore lol.

[bleach aftertaste]

Limited as to what I can do seeing as I only own a phone rn but for the most part I live in cb cos there's life there

[Amakai411]

I'm here...I just lurk most of the time rofl