![]() The towns and games are probably dead, the only thing left is the anime forums, which are moderately active. You use the platinum to buy aucton items from other players, and there are stores which are Gaia Cash only to sell the main items. So, now they have the Platinum as the "free" currency you earn but they also have a premium currency Gaia Cash, which is standard. The first thing that an automatic message told me was that there's a new currency, platinum, and that one platinum equals 10 million of the old gold coins. I poked at it today, as I had an old account. Honestly the whole site is just full of 30 year old parents and people with weird kinks which is uhh not my cup of tea I suppose. I have some sentimental value with it of course, but it mostly came from a friend I played with at the time. I guess unless someone was REALLY passionate about it and invested a bunch of money into it (like idk maybe jeff bezos is a gaia online fan) it's not coming back. It sucks when cool things sell out like that. I hoped it wasn't bought by a corporate whatever but yeah I guess it already was. Now that you mention it thought I'm starting to vaguely remember something about gold generators. I might have a few details wrong, but this is the gist I got from watching some videos etc describing the events.oh wow I had no idea it was that bad. I might have a few details wrong, but this is the gist I got from watching some videos etc describing the events. Not surprisingly, this then lead to the collapse of the entire site, then the new owners just sold the smoking remains of the site to someone else, it eventually ended up in the hands of a group of the original people I believe and they've been trying to patch it up ever since. However, it really doesn't work like that. So, because of the inflation you'd have to play every day for months to get like a hat for your character, but even then the hyper-inflation is happening *while* you're saving those coins up, meaning the price of that hat is rising faster than you can earn any coins.Īnother problem here is that the company that bought it just assumed you could burn through anime-fans as a "player base" then get a new crop of people in when those people got burned out and left. it's still the same game, but the "progress" system would just make you want to quit playing. Think about it this way: if there's a free mini-game and you can play it whenever you want, people will play it a bit, but then add a leveling system and say the next level-up comes if you play every day for three years. But with the hyper-inflation, the coins you earned were next to worthless, so people stopped interacting in the mini-games too. You got a few coins for these and doing enough meant you could buy stuff in the stores or auction. This then caused people to abandon the mini-games. the "players" with money were in an arms-race for who had the most gold generators thus could generate the highest amount of daily gold and win the auctions etc. This caused hyper-inflation, so all the prices skyrocketed, and they responded with selling bigger and bigger gold generators to try and keep people buying: still trying to maintain their precious monthly sales targets. They then started mass-selling reprints of the limited-time items, thus devaluing them, and also started selling "gold generators" which automagically generated daily gold. Then, the new owners were never happy that they weren't selling enough shit per month, the only metric they cared about was monthly revenue. ![]() Plus, you had the mini-games and you could earn a trickle of coins that way, to buy stuff for your avatar. How it happened was that before, there was a game-economy and you could buy and sell stuff on the site, there were collectibles and limited-time collectibles etc, so if you got the limited-time ones you could have unique stuff for your avatar. Kinda sad to see it die out, I wish it was revamped and brought out of 2008.ĭo you know the history behind it? It was doing well but then got bought out by a company that tried to do a fast cash grab. I guess it can be considered a sort of game, even tho it's mainly forum-based.
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