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May 2007 (The ''Invasion'' / Quest frenzy) |
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For this month we didn't have any big events, guess after the Easter event disaster the staff decided to take a break and plan the next events more carefully and that's the way it should be. I only found two things that are worth posting about:
The first event, which can't really be considered one was the 420chan small invasion to Gaia. I call it an event because it caused a lot of controversy and worried the community. Basically what happened is that the already mentioned forum site somehow got a list of Gaia usernames and passwords from another forum site called SuBeta. But how did this happened? I will try to explain it according to what I heard:
According to the rumors and the posts I read it all started when SuBeta used 420chan's mascot, which is a fat cat I think. 420chan was annoyed by this since SuBeta didn't had the permission so it was basically stolen. According to the rumors, the person in charge of the SuBeta forum handed over a list of the users of it's forum to 420chan to compensate for the stolen mascot. Then the users who happened to be using the same username and password in Subeta and Gaia got their account hacked by 420chan users. I am not sure if it is true that the list was handed over to 420chan or if they somehow hacked SuBeta and got it, I am just documenting what other users posted. There were one or two official topics discussing the matter, but they all had different statements of the events, but they all agreed that the hacked users had the same username and password in both sites (Gaia and SuBeta). This is why it is always recommendable to use different usernames and passwords in all the forums you are part of, anyways for users like me who didn't even heard of SuBeta nothing happened. I don't know how many users got hacked, but the topics mentiones it was over 600. eek
Anyways I made a chart that briefly explains all the chaos, made in Paint xd :
The whole matter was with SuBeta, but since Gaia was caught in the middle, it also paid part of the consequences. sad Is like 2 people are shooting each other and then someone gets between them and gets shot. Hopefully the victims learned their lesson and will be careful with their personal information from now on.
But now with other news, Gaia sponsored several movies this month which meant more quests. Sure they weren't the greatest thing ever, but as long as it is a quest I will do them. blaugh
The first quest was for a Tsubasa DVD that was coming out:
Hosted by the Feather Master:
This quest was a bit different from the previous ones, we actually had to do something different. We needed to look for small, medium and large feathers for the Feather Master on the maps that appeared randomly. After giving them to the Feather Master we were rewarded with the Mokona Hat.
There was also a bit of a heat in the community with this quest since the users that were allowed to do the quest were those who live in the places were the DVD was being released and those who don't live in those places complained constantly about how unfair that was and I agree, it was unfair. However there was nothing the staff could do about it since it involved legal issues, I understand the staff needs the money for the site maintenance but it would be better to sponsor things and make quests were everyone is included in because no one likes being left out.
Anyways, the next quest was to sponsor the Gracie movie hosted by Gracie herself:
This quest was nothing special, it was basically a repetition of the Mimzy quest, we just watched the trailer and that was it, the prize was a soccer ball. The only difference was that the trailer was on the Gaia Cinemas this time, guess they were trying to get the people to use the feature. xp
The last quest was to sponsor the Nancy Drew movie hosted by Nancy of course:
Besides watching the trailer of the cinemas we had to help Nancy solve a mystery: Using a magnifying glass we ''found'' on the theater we had to look for clues on her guild. The first clue involved a fingerprint on a tape recorder:
We got the magnifying glass as the reward but this was just the first part of the quest. The second part involved going again to the theaters to watch another clip about Nancy products. xp Then we had use a flashlight that we once again ''found'' in the theater to look for more clues on her guild. This time we found a ring on Nancy's notebook and for that we got the flashlight as a reward.
The quest in not over yet but this is all we got during May, hopefully in June the mystery will be solved. xd
Now for the rest of the features and news:
-The NPC Admin finally has an identity:
So now she appears when you have news from the marketplace and such.
- The items for this month are a choice between the Yokai's Treasure and the long awaited Demonic Anklets.
- An update for the journals, now we can personalize our journals with more options and we get messages stating when people comment them, Nice. biggrin
- There is also a new site navigation system in progress, however the first part of it didn't pleased many people sweatdrop , hopefully the final result will be worth waiting for. 3nodding
- The newest Gaia Comic:
Well, that's all for this month, let's see what my birthday's month brings. biggrin
See ya!
Flux · Sun Jun 03, 2007 @ 07:07pm · 0 Comments |
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