I used to love this website. I used to get on every day, all day if possible, for around 10 or so years. And like most people I've seen the ups and downs and have had a few new accounts. Well, I recently left the website due to seeing it go down hill, this was a year ago, but got curious and decided to log back on. Every now and then I used to go and check how much my avi became worth over time, with the thought of getting it to a high amount then giving it away because I never thought I'd come back, and I was shocked! Tektek basically showed my avi was worth 5x's (guessing because its outrageous) as much as it used to. So I decided, hell Im gonna hit the MP. Needless to say Im speechless, earlier today I sold a guppie for 100k. When in the hell did a guppy I spent maybe 25g on, for some bait, become worth that much? This has made me do some research and ask old friends and frankly I'm appalled that it's gotten like this.
I was here when Go Gaia was around, I (admittedly went against TOS and joined when I was younger than 13 by several years) joined because my sister had an account and I rarely got to see her as it was. She let me have some items so I looked nice and we had fun! I was happy with her letting me used her Coco and Lair the dragon (Whatever that old green dragon was called way back when). Now its become site where, when I left, having a pale marionette was where it was at. This is shocking to me, when I went to the MP yesterday to figure out what the hell was going on I saw at least 3 or 4 recolors of the item along with several recolors of other items. It was the same item just a new color scheme and an outrageous price.
While digging around to figure out what was going on to the site I once loved, the site that connected me to distant family, the site that gave a young boy who had no friends a whole slew of them with a click away, I found the perfect signature.
Quote:
"1 year ago, we saw Gaia Online as a
community. Today we see Gaia Online as a
company....