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 Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:32 am
I've gotten to that point in this site where the only reason I'm here is for art. After that runs out... I think i may check in every once in a while... but I'm not going to waste anymore time here. Whats the point anymore... This was supposed to be a place so I could get away from the stress of money and the idiocy of real life. And look whats happened.
Were we just test subjects all along? A real simulation of what the world economy is like? I have so many feelings and head desks about this whole site. So many, I don't have enough time in my day to write it all out.
I just want to be in high school again so I can have the old gaia back. When there was no cash shop. The only thing you bought was real life gaia apparel and the MC letter. I'm at my wits end. I'm literally throwing my gold at artists. crying I really miss what was. But all I can do it see what is. Thinking about the past is depressing because maybe we can't make a difference. Just like real life today, we don't matter. The only thing that matters is our money, nothing more.
can i just go off the grid forever now and live in the woods all hippy-like?
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 10:40 am
I don't blame you for feeling that way.
I love the guilds and friends. I like to RP (when I'm not busy or angry about the current state of Gaia), and I just like to socialize in general.
My friends have been quitting... so I miss most of that.
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:57 pm
I was first exposed to gaia in 2003, became active in 2005.
I was bullied a lot in school and I needed a safe place. Gaia became my Safe place.
I met friends and it gave me a chance to do things I love. Making and giving away art, being able to be me.
As the years passed I liked the idea of the gaia cash...( I was a minor then ) because I didn't want to send $5 in an envelope and hope and pray that I get the MCs...
its been 10 years and I am still questing items from 2003... now that the peeps are charging $300 for a set of items, or $1,000 for a freaking halo.... Gaia has become greedy...
I remember freaking out over the fishnet top being 2,500 gold....
gaia is slowly turning into the place I sought refuge from....
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:00 am
I came to Gaia in 2009 and I was in a bad place mentally, it helped me stabilize and get back together after years of what I can only call torture at the hands of peers and teachers that would of caused most people to take extreme measures.
Now I am about to graduate with a degree and I am getting back into working out again/job searching, and it never would of started if not for Gaia.
Gaia was my safe place, it helped me through horrible times and the people I met here though most have left or forgotten me helped me get to where I am now.
But now it is changing, I came here to escape and still do and now it is morphing into the very thing I come here to get away from. I do not want this, as I am sure all here can agree; and to stop we must take action.
Gaia is turning into something, and we must stop it before it is too late.
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 4:02 pm
I joined Gaia in 2005.
One of my friends invited me, and I was so excited at the general look of the site (I collect dolls; dress ups always entertain me) that I dragged a bunch of my other friends on. So it was a place we could hang out that wasn't school.
The years passed and my friends left, my life crashed, and things were difficult. But I had met amazing people here, and this became a "home" for me to just avoid the problems I had off the net.
I'm older now. I still meet amazing people on this site, and I visit everyday.
But now every time I get on, I just get upset. Instead of enjoying the time I spend here, that time is filled with a site reminding me how much money I don't have, people being greedy, and my friends leaving in groups.
I just can't anymore. I loved this place so much, but that was then and this is now. This was the last thing in my life that really made me happy, even if just a little. The changes they had through the years were never bad, and I always had fun.
But now its changed so drastically and in the worst way possible. And I am sad. So freaking sad, I cannot accurately describe my sadness in words.
People have hope. I did too.
But after today, I don't really see the point. ;A;
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2013 11:06 pm
Family. This is where my few friends are and have been for the past five years.
I'm sorry. I would say more but thinking on what has been happening to this sight any longer makes me dizzy.
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 12:01 am
basically my intro to the internet
The forums are amazing
I've never seen so many different types of people so willing to debate and discuss anywhere else
I have a strange hate-love relationship with this community that lets me be more open
and less worried about ******** up, contradicting myself, etc...I guess knowingly showing growth?
I don't really have any friends on here anymore
but I don't really want to
I like this weird state of detachment and what it's done for me
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:34 am
When I started on Gaia, I checked in daily to take care of my aquarium. Even after I lost my ISP and had to use my neighor's computer, I made it online a good 5 days a week. I got really scared when I ran into the idea of mule accounts and thought two people were one person. Then I got curious about mules and other site features, and how things worked. I'm a late starter, November of 2009, and joined a clan early on. Later, I started my own. Somewhere in the middle, I got ISP back.
Mostly, what I've valued has been the simulation Gaia offers of the real world, the opportunity to make friends all over the world and bounce ideas around.
Lately, the story holding all the parts of Gaia have gotten thin, not so much manga and events tailored to goldsinks rather than the story of Gaia. I've felt like the lab rat corporate used to describe users. My reaction to B. F. Skinner's work is as negative as it was to the novella "Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka, where a clerk who lived at home woke up one day to see himself as a 6' cockroach in his mirror, and his mother forced him out of the house with a broom. That is how I feel Gaia is treating us, and that there isn't much lower.
I value behavior mod ("skinnerism") as useful ONLY when the subject is included in the scheme - doing with instead of doing to. Positive reinforcement shouldn't mean succeeding in creating addiction - that is SO wrongheaded, and so NOT the Gaia I love and know.
Sorry, am not able to only be positive sweetness and light, it's all pouring out.
I wish we could have Memphis the Mermaid back for Booty Grab.
I wish we could have zOMG back in development.
I wish we could have repairs to the minigames and other features.
I wish corporate would view us as other than wallets-to-be-emptied - I miss being treated as a co-creator.
I am offended by Flynn and Smashblox, constant ads, telling people to leave if they are not happy.
Guess I ran out of sweetness and light really early on in this post.
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:52 am
Alisseia ¤¸¸.·´¯`·.¸·..>>--» ☜♥☞ «--<<..·.¸¸·´¯`·.¸¸¤
Gaiaonline is a free forum website with avatars that you can customize in a variety of different ways. It's a site that immerses it's users in it's own world with various events, making them feel like they're wandering around the world when they go from page to page, using the Manga and mini-comics to tell the story of the world, games that show you another part of the world, and having a community that's like a family, that community including those who work to make Gaia a great place. Many people consider this site as a home, and the other people on it as a family. When I joined the site I didn't expect to find this. I only joined because I saw my sister playing fishing quite a few years ago. She stopped playing, and I took over her account when mine got hacked and banned. I found a second home and family, even though I didn't know it then.
That's why I'm still on the site. I don't want to see all that it stands for end. Thank you for reminding me why I like Gaia.
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:09 pm
jellykans Alisseia ¤¸¸.·´¯`·.¸·..>>--» ☜♥☞ «--<<..·.¸¸·´¯`·.¸¸¤
Gaiaonline is a free forum website with avatars that you can customize in a variety of different ways. It's a site that immerses it's users in it's own world with various events, making them feel like they're wandering around the world when they go from page to page, using the Manga and mini-comics to tell the story of the world, games that show you another part of the world, and having a community that's like a family, that community including those who work to make Gaia a great place. Many people consider this site as a home, and the other people on it as a family. When I joined the site I didn't expect to find this. I only joined because I saw my sister playing fishing quite a few years ago. She stopped playing, and I took over her account when mine got hacked and banned. I found a second home and family, even though I didn't know it then.
That's why I'm still on the site. I don't want to see all that it stands for end. Thank you for reminding me why I like Gaia. I'm glad I could help razz
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Posted: Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:34 pm
Gaia means (or should I say meant) to me: a community of like-minded people from all walks of life, rich or poor, who hang out together and have fun with the perfect mix of popular fandoms from gaming to manga. That's what first attracted me, not the fancy game graphics of Towns or the pretty avatars but the fact people across the globe were interacting live in a game-like environment for free!
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:32 am
Remember when -
You couldn't wait to get onto Gaia?
You missed your favorite activities and your friends?
I remember when I started on Gaia just over four years ago, I loved my aquarium. I adored the fish and had pairs of my favorites, saving for each pair. I bought GC for the first time to buy fish. I also bought cherry trees and some coral. I loved reading bottle messages and became proud of my skill in answering them. When I lost my ISP/internet connection after several months, my neighbor let me get on nearly every day to feed my fish.
I was ready to quit on my second day of play, but found several people who helped me. They made ALL the difference! I stayed out of forums for over a year after a few bad experiences, but enjoyed mini-games and was avidly involved in the marketplace.
I made three friends in my first month who are still my friends and are still on Gaia. We all started around the same time, though one had been on Gaia before. Gaia was my bright spot, my safe place, and everyone saw to that.
I wish it felt that way today.
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Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:26 pm
Back when I was 12 (Oh No! You Shouldn't have been on Gaia then!) eh shaddap, I used to love the Avatar Arenas and community <3 so engaged and lively. As of now it's sort of a hollowed out shell of what it used to be, Lanzer needs to step up his game.
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Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 9:18 pm
i have my whole shpeel in another topic in the main page; but if i really had to pic one reason why i'm here
i'd say for the community and culture, never seen anything like it before/since i was introduced
<3
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Posted: Thu Nov 14, 2013 7:07 pm
Asari Matriarch i have my whole shpeel in another topic in the main page; but if i really had to pic one reason why i'm here i'd say for the community and culture, never seen anything like it before/since i was introduced <3 I agree, and this is what I was thinking of when I was looking for songs for that guild thread today.
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