Does anyone Gaia?

Krafty · Post by **Krafty** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:18 pm

Ah, I just found my account details! I haven't been there since March 2006 but the login still worked. My name's KraftyK on Gaia and the site has got a lot bigger since I saw it last.
I've only got 165 gold so I can't even afford to buy clothes so my character isn't much to look at. Part of me wants to invest more time in this online world but with all the other things I'm into, I can't do that.
Still, like you ladies have said, it's nice to know that they're other adults on there- especially Betarians!

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:09 am

I used to be obsessed with Gaia. Haven't been there in ages tho. It was quite a small community, barely with any rules to abide by or anything. I'm sure it's much different now. I got turned onto it when I saw an ad for their site inside a Street Fighter comic, maybe even when DreamWave was still around (not sure tho).

jcaliff wrote:I bet a lot of my donation letters are worth quite a bit now.

LOL, yeah, same here! I'm almost curious enough to log on and find out.

bran-chan · Post by **bran-chan** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:22 pm

duotrouble wrote:
blueshinma wrote:This may be sad but a friend of mine from neopets got me started there. Then she got herself IP banned for buying items from someone on ebay
That's strange. There has to be more to that story. They can't stop you from doing other things on the internet.

Technically they can. Because they own the pixelated items and since you sign their TOS that says you can't sell the items for real money.

I use to be big into the Gaia Breedables, but real life got too hectic with planning a wedding and finally moving into the new house that I dropped off for awhile.

blueshinma · Post by **blueshinma** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:52 pm

Yeah they are fairly strict about the black market pixels. NeoPets is even worse, if they even suspect you are doing anything Neo related for real money or even game points they will freeze the account. They will even ban you if you code a lookup for someone and that person sends you an item or even just points. Gaia is much more relaxed. they let you "sell" artwork and lookups to people for gaia gold, but ebaying a dark halo is a massive no no

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:11 pm

Wow, things on Gaia really have changed then. People were openly selling donation items for real money on the site back when I was an active user. But the community was pretty small then. I guess it makes sense, but if someone's willing to buy an item, why stop them?

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:11 pm

To me too.

bran-chan · Post by **bran-chan** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:40 pm

wELCOME cONSUMER wrote:Wow, things on Gaia really have changed then. People were openly selling donation items for real money on the site back when I was an active user. But the community was pretty small then. I guess it makes sense, but if someone's willing to buy an item, why stop them?

Because you don't 'own' the item. the way the TOS reads is that you're just using them so you have no right to profit off the item other than selling it for gaia gold. What gaia really has problems with is people buying botted gold on ebay.

wELCOME cONSUMER · Post by **wELCOME cONSUMER** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:50 am

Oh sure, I know why it's not allowed. I was kidding. Besides, don't you pay Gaia to receive those donation letters with the attached gifts? I would think buying it from anyone else would cut into their income.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:48 pm

bran-chan wrote:
duotrouble wrote:
blueshinma wrote:This may be sad but a friend of mine from neopets got me started there. Then she got herself IP banned for buying items from someone on ebay
That's strange. There has to be more to that story. They can't stop you from doing other things on the internet.
Technically they can. Because they own the pixelated items and since you sign their TOS that says you can't sell the items for real money.

Well, yeah, I know they can stop you from selling their stuff. I wasn't thinking about that. The way I read this was that Gaia banned this person and then when the second person bought from them they got banned as well. Guess my mind went complicated instead of staying simple.

Really nice to see so many beta Gaians.

I've spent some of their gold now but I haven't done anything that requires real money. I don't I will but you never know.

Queen_Serenity · Post by **Queen_Serenity** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 12:00 am

We should set up a day and time for all of us to meet in a puzzle room or go fishing or something.

That way we wouldn't have to talk to random people we don't know.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:41 pm

I think that would be a lot of fun. Anyone have suggestions as to when? Maybe a lazy Sunday evening?

Queen_Serenity · Post by **Queen_Serenity** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:28 am

I'll be home this weekend, so I'm good for whenever.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:49 pm

Okay! Yeah, I'm more for this than ever after yesterday. I went into a puzzle room that only had one other person. The last time I did that was great. The two of us just played. Yesterday was a different story.

I noticed kanji appeared in the chat. Having no idea what it said, I continued to build my puzzle. Next thing I see is "do you talk?" What happened to hi? Maybe that's what the kanji said but I didn't have a clue so I said hi and that I didn't notice her talking. Seriously, there's no sound alert to tell you someone typed and I was there for the puzzle. I get very intense on my games.

Eventually, we had a full house and she was bitching that no one was chatting and finally left after grilling me some. She searched my username after I attempted to blow her off with "I'm new." So I searched her username. She's 17. No wonder she didn't have any people skills.

Anyway, I found it hysterical that after she left everyone started chatting. Once you get the rude person out of the room, everything's fine.

Queen_Serenity · Post by **Queen_Serenity** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:10 pm

lol That's why I usually create my own room and password protect it so the crazies can't come in. We should probably do the same when we have a meet, just PM everyone the room name and password or something.

duotrouble · Post by **duotrouble** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:20 pm

How does this Sunday (2/3) at 5pm EST we have a puzzle hour? We'll get a private room so the rude people will stay out.

Feel free to suggest a different date or time if this doesn't work.