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 Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:47 am
Designated Hero Y'know what the most ridiculous thing is? Designated Hero People actually buy this stuff.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:39 am
ragingtofu Designated Hero Y'know what the most ridiculous thing is? Designated Hero People actually buy this stuff. :/ Then again, if people didn't buy it with real cash, there'd be none on the market to buy with Gaia gold. Gaia has to make money somehow to keep the server up.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:52 am
I bought this with Gaia Gold. Though I am not ashamed to say I have bought stuff off the Cash Shop directly. Gaia is giving some benefits to those who want to support the site, so I say let them.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:58 am
That argument kind of falls flat when you consider that in 2003, they were taking donations (and the letters were called "Donation Letters") specifically for server upkeep while the few people that ran the site worked other jobs.
Now they're called Monthly Collectibles, Gaia is described as a business, they have corporate offices, and you can buy Gaia Cash cards at Target.
It is not a little start-up, small role-playing community website. It is a business, and is being run by a business, and they want to make money because it's profitable, not to keep the site alive like they were trying to do six years ago.
I'm not condemning people who pay for stuff. If people want to support the website, that's cool. If they want to buy stuff to resell it for gold, that's cool too. Honestly, I just thought it was funny that those two posts came up one after the other, though I do think that the point of all the added paid content (however you want to say it) is for profit, not just upkeep.
*Stumbles off to actually be productive today.*
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:01 am
I agree. Quote the random Flintstone's appliance, "It's a living".
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:01 am
Work on a new song.
I want at least five tracks by the end of the month.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:18 am
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:23 am
They make enough via ad-space and endorsements to keep the site running, I'm sure. MCs and Gaia Cash s**t are just cash cows, now.
Not that I blame them. Good marketing to a group of people who want to buy the stuff.
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:32 am
Designated Hero Work on a new song. I want at least five tracks by the end of the month. How about this "mick's tape" I found in the bushes? >>
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:11 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:20 pm
*divebombs the Sunny* scream
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:24 pm
Never had a chance: gonk burning_eyes
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:34 pm
* Re-inflates Sunny via fireplace bellows.*
The Lords are guest staring Snoop?
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:35 pm
*skids to a halt.* Calci-Sunny! the guild needs to move!
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:37 pm
*Leaves a trail of Sunny-snacks to a box suspiciously propped up by a stick with a string leading off-screen.*
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