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 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:25 pm
Quote: Quote: More or less. It's good because it blocks the insane users from requesting really crazy things, but it's annoying from the average user's standpoint. Back in the day users had more influence. Hence the Ninja Headband and the Katana. I'm an '06er. I missed most of that.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:27 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:28 pm
Cattra Nightblade Allegro Zephyrkitty More or less. It's good because it blocks the insane users from requesting really crazy things, but it's annoying from the average user's standpoint. Back in the day users had more influence. Hence the Ninja Headband and the Katana. indeed, but also back in the day the users were loyal and low in numbers. And you say they're not loyal now? In terms of donations, Gaia's healthier than ever. The reason users had more input is because Gaia was such a work in process. It had really set up a tier system of moderators or any real corporate structure, so more or less there was more direct interaction with users. The user run galas and balls, for example, were a perfect example of this. My best friend in real life and I were involved with that, and he took ******** Noraboo to the ball. (Who's like one of the longest tenured mods/admins Gaia's had.)
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:28 pm
Quote: Quote: More or less. It's good because it blocks the insane users from requesting really crazy things, but it's annoying from the average user's standpoint. But there wold be Gaia judges to whittle out the stupid crap just like in the little item contest, and then the users would vote on the best of the best. Good point. An EI contest would be amazing.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:29 pm
Allegro Cattra Nightblade Allegro Zephyrkitty More or less. It's good because it blocks the insane users from requesting really crazy things, but it's annoying from the average user's standpoint. Back in the day users had more influence. Hence the Ninja Headband and the Katana. indeed, but also back in the day the users were loyal and low in numbers. And you say they're not loyal now? In terms of donations, Gaia's healthier than ever. The reason users had more input is because Gaia was such a work in process. It had really set up a tier system of moderators or any real corporate structure, so more or less there was more direct interaction with users. The user run galas and balls, for example, were a perfect example of this. My best friend in real life and I were involved with that, and he took ******** Noraboo to the ball. (Who's like one of the longest tenured mods/admins Gaia's had.) touche my good sir, touche
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:33 pm
Quote: And you say they're not loyal now? In terms of donations, Gaia's healthier than ever. The reason users had more input is because Gaia was such a work in process. It had really set up a tier system of moderators or any real corporate structure, so more or less there was more direct interaction with users. The user run galas and balls, for example, were a perfect example of this. My best friend in real life and I were involved with that, and he took ******** Noraboo to the ball. (Who's like one of the longest tenured mods/admins Gaia's had.) I fear the same thing is happening to the video game industry. They have lost touch with gamers, and now it is about making money. It is that exact reason Sakurai left HAL.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:33 pm
The thing I would worry about with an EI contest is that it would kill the suspense. Would we know anything about the final poses, or any of the other poses?
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:36 pm
Quote: The thing I would worry about with an EI contest is that it would kill the suspense. Would we know anything about the final poses, or any of the other poses? Aww damn you're right. How can you possibly vote on something knowing only the first couple of stages? That sucks a**.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:37 pm
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:38 pm
Owwin Quote: The thing I would worry about with an EI contest is that it would kill the suspense. Would we know anything about the final poses, or any of the other poses? Aww damn you're right. How can you possibly vote on something knowing only the first couple of stages? That sucks a**. It's not inconceivable to. I mean, after all, we get pumped about items like the infernal spirit just because of the name.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:41 pm
Quote: Quote: Quote: The thing I would worry about with an EI contest is that it would kill the suspense. Would we know anything about the final poses, or any of the other poses? Aww damn you're right. How can you possibly vote on something knowing only the first couple of stages? That sucks a**. It's not inconceivable to. I mean, after all, we get pumped about items like the infernal spirit just because of the name. A minimal description of how it's going to evolve might be enough. We seem to get those with a lot of the newer EIs anyway.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:41 pm
Quote: It's not inconceivable to. I mean, after all, we get pumped about items like the infernal spirit just because of the name. But right there is another problem. The majority of users will vote for stuff with names like Death Whisper, Infernal Spirit, Demon Dark Death Doom Fire Flame Fear Sword Ball. We would never get anything really creative unless the judges got sick of those items too. I am so sick of demonic items and evil stuff that I could puke the freaking T virus.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:43 pm
Quote: Quote: It's not inconceivable to. I mean, after all, we get pumped about items like the infernal spirit just because of the name. But right there is another problem. The majority of users will vote for stuff with names like Death Whisper, Infernal Spirit, Demon Dark Death Doom Fire Flame Fear Sword Ball. We would never get anything really creative unless the judges got sick of those items too. If there are several thousand entries of 'Dark Demon Death Sword', they'd probably either pick the best one among the entries or throw them all out.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:44 pm
Zephyrkitty Quote: Quote: More or less. It's good because it blocks the insane users from requesting really crazy things, but it's annoying from the average user's standpoint. Back in the day users had more influence. Hence the Ninja Headband and the Katana. I'm an '06er. I missed most of that.
The user to influence ratio got ******** over when the user amount rose so high. More people, harder to get a voice to listen to.
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Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 1:44 pm
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