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To Whom It May Concern (Which is really no one but me):
Gaia used to be my closest companion. I've been here for 4 years. Every Christmas, Halloween, Easter and summer event accomplished. I was there through all its changes and evolutions. I lived through the launch of Zomg, aquariums, the cash shop (and in extension, evolving items). When I'm old (like 30), Gaia will be remembered as the defining website of my awkward pre/early teen years.
However, Gaia has grown and evolved and transformed into this beast that i can barely recognize. The inflation scared me. All of a sudden, there were only two ways to survive: spend money (Like I can afford to do that) or spend countless hours grabbing booty. Gaia has come to be about playing the market, getting the most pixels. Just a year or two ago, it took work of posting in threads, making art, and more posting to get those hard items, but they were attainable goals. Yet now, most new items are pretty dreams to look at, but never to reach.
Gaia has become too complicated. Cash shop items, evolving items, monthly collectibles, gold items. Inflation, Booty Grabbing, Justin Bieber! I realize this while trying to find a nice bottom for my avi. It took 5 minutes of unnecessary pages and slow loading to just get into a store. And the silly "Yay, you dressed your avi" page we are directed to after saving an avi. It is just a waste of time. Also, in the middle of dressing my avi, i got a pop up ad! Really? Gaia has resorted to pop up ads?
Consequently, the people now leave something to desire. It's as if hackers, spammers and trolls are fleeing here like flies to a light (not to say there aren't still nice people, but the rudeness factor has definitely risen). True, I was never that great at socializing to begin with, but sometimes i could have a nice conversation while kicking back with a puzzle. Now it's spam, spam, troll, rude. I resorted to playing in a password locked room. It makes me sad. I made my first online friend through the puzzles, and now...it's different now.
Because of this, I really hate Gaia now. It makes me angry. I don't want to go on Gaia and feel as though it is (hard) work just so that i can get my avi to have some blush or have the perfect hat. I don't want to be bombarded with trolls and spam. I don't want to be jammed into a crowded web page with ads overflowing.
Sometimes, i consider (and do) just completely quit, I don't get on for weeks, months. I didn't have a desire to get on. I contemplated giving my account.
But I know I won't ever really do that. JoJoNot is so deeply integreated into me that giving the account up would be almost like killing myself (dramatic, i know). Yet, four years of (i dunno the word i'm trying to use so I'll just say) passion has gone into this account. I don't want to give it away. I wish i could just save my entire inventory to my computer, because (and i know this sounds lame, but) I love each one of my pixels. No booty grabbing assistance (well, maybe a little, but only a very small bit). I worked for all that i have now. I feel like an old man who has a hand made shoe company that is being overshadowed by the fancy new modern machine shoe company. People think i should just sell it and retire, but I don't want to sell my company. I kind of want to hug it and never let go.
I know. I'm just rambling incoherently. This probably will be skimmed by one other person at best. But I am really just trying to say that I love JoJoNot but I feel as if GaiaOnline is coming between us.
 JoJoNot · Mon Jan 17, 2011 @ 03:08am · 1 Comments |
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