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Offsite doesn't give them money is my guess
They might even lose money to offsite generators
And giving their current ideals (moneybag eyes), that's a major red flag to them

Well for one thing, offsite trading/ selling virtual currency is illegal for any website. That's something that exists outside of Gaia, and they and we must obey that law. Gaia has no authority to legalize it, even if they wanted to. It's basically gambling, deception, taking advantage of people, cheating, and it's open to various forms of abuse.

It's the same thing as piracy. How would you feel if you put a lot of work and effort into creating a website that generates an income for yourself, but someone started making money off all of YOUR hard work and claimed every reward for it? And then, as a result, because you didn't get your rightful income that you must use to support your website, you had to give it up and shut it down? That's the danger of off-site gold generators.

I do understand your frame of mind here. What Gaia is doing with the GGs is dirty, but it's not dirty because *we* can't do it-- it's dirty because it interferes with our enjoyment and the functionality of the site.

But also...



They do encourage it, or they wouldn't be doing it in the first place. It doesn't have to be in-your-face encouragement. The whole point of an off-site generator is to use it. They make the GGs with the full understanding that you're planning to use it. Whether or not they verbally tell you to spend or hurt the economy, that's the simple result. Like a grocery store, they don't have to tell you to eat food, if you buy it, you're 99% planning to eat it.

It is sad, however, that there is otherwise very little difference between the two, as far as how they affect the in-site economy.