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So, Platinum Is Here, And I Really Couldn't Care Much Less |
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I've left the switch to platinum because it's the way of the future. Like it or not, there's no future in the past, which was gold. And even though I still think it's a half-assed idea and implementation, they've put too much time and money into it to abandon it. So we are all going to have to suck it up and get used to it.
Same with the sucktastic payouts. I'm getting 28/51 platinum for Sycamorte tedium, which is 280,000,000/510,000,000 gold. (I have a 10% additional set of amulets on my fluff.) I don't even get 1p per aquarium played (I still do because I like the tank owners). I have yet to earn any platinum for surfing (I am checking.)
The most sucktastic part? I really don't feel anything. Not angry, not excited, not hurt....just a big ol' nuthin'. I just don't care anymore.
About Gaia, that is. The people here? You guys? I still care a great deal, and you're why I'm still logging in daily. You matter. The rest of this site? Whatever.
I realized many moons ago that I have more items in my inventory that I WANT and LIKE (as opposed to the thousands of pieces of crap either bought for resale or forgotten about or not worth selling). I could make outfits at my current pace for decades and not use all of them. Yeah, sure, I have a wishlist full of stuff, but honestly? It's mostly a reminder list of "would be nice" items. None of them are making me yearn for more resources or more availability of the item so I could have it.
(It's also there because people like to give gifts, and I know how hard it is to figure it out when there's no wishlist, having been on the other end many times. So yes, it's a list of things I like, but I like other things, too. It's people's generosity that is the real gift. Why do you think I write thank you PMs every time I receive a gift? It's because I truly appreciate the generosity.)
If I feel anything about this at all, it's that I'm ever so slightly miffed that it's pretty much the end of my Aquarium spreadsheets. I've been keeping spreadsheets with daily records pretty much since I started running tanks, all in gold, all so intertwined with forward and back references that it would take a cubic blortload of work to convert it to platinum.
Which isn't worth it on so many levels, especially since I make less than 1p per day on my tank. (usually between 1m - 2m gold). I simply don't have the time or, quite frankly, the interest. So long and thanks for all the fish, etc.
So yeah, we got platinum. It's a new coat of paint on the same condemned building.
purplewiz · Tue Aug 08, 2017 @ 12:01am · 0 Comments |
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