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Gaia admits: they make a lot of cash.

As stated by Fred Kelson, there is no actual way to know how much cash Gaia Online makes because it tries to hide all of its financial data. In other words, because they are not a company, they can easily hide all their income to the large public and thus continue to say that they need donations for server upcosts.

 

Well, for the first time, Gaia Online has admitted they were making a lot of money.

 

From http://www.answers.com/topic/gaia-online : ”It should be noted that the items for November 2006 barely payed for server costs.”

 

 

 

Oh really? How nice! A few things should be noted:

 

 

 

1)As stated by Mr. Kelson, aside from server upcosts, Gaia has virtually no other costs. It does not offer technical support nor does it upgrade a lot (aside from monthly collectibles). 

 

2)This does not count advertising, the gold they sell, the ad placement they sell and the store which is responsible for over 60% of their income. 

 

3)This was a data from November 2006; we can safely assume these income have grown up a bit. 

 

 

 

You can also note that Fred Kelson’s estimation was indeed correct as both results, the one he estimated and the one given by answers.com, are very close to each other.

 

Where do I want to come? Well they said that monthly collectibles paid for server costs, thus meaning that all money from advertising, gold and real shop go into their pockets. Nice job, assholes!

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14 Responses to “Gaia admits: they make a lot of cash.”

  1. Licic Says:
    February 17th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
    I’ve never got a Gaia Online account myself, but I had friends banned for absolutely no reason. One in particular was banned for siding against a moderator on the abortion issue. Yes, he was banned from Gaia for DEFENDING abortions, he was literally banned because of freedom of speech! Saying abortion should be legal is not a crime, it’s not even against Gaia’s terms of service.

    I am generally disgusted at how GaiaOnline treats its users. Derek Liu has probably made more kids unhappy, broken more dreams than every other person I know.

    And you? Were you banned on Gaia? Discuss!

  2. Karumi Says:
    March 21st, 2009 at 3:14 pm
    Well, now that someone has decided to take up space by copying and pasting a forum post…

    And for the extra money issue that was brought up, I hope you realize that they have to pay for the people working on the sight as well. No one works on a website like that without wanting it to be their job, because honestly they can’t even work elsewhere.
    And do you know this Kelson guy? How reliable is he?
    Or is as biased as you?

  3. fuck u Says:
    May 10th, 2009 at 7:57 am
    fuck you bitch i dont give a fuck about your poor ass cause you not making no money
  4. tuninama Says:
    June 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
    i was banned for warning a girl about pregnantcy and stds(because she asked where can her and her bf ‘do it’). O_O she reported me and i was banned, i assume thats what happened the unmannerly admin didn’t even tell me why i was banned >=o
  5. TJ Says:
    June 10th, 2009 at 3:17 am
    my friend was almost banned for just putting a downlod link for a japanese comic or something in a pm and got warned that you dont post or send illegal downloads or anything it was something stupid and said your message has been deleted and if you do this again youll be banned and the website was legal i cant remeber the name but thats wat he told me
  6. jojo ma Says:
    June 15th, 2009 at 10:35 am
    Gaia is coool you aren not
  7. Worst Game Ever- GAIA Says:
    June 24th, 2009 at 12:56 am
    WTF?? You guys haven’t learnt your lesson, that’s why you keep telling us to shut up. Get banned for no reason then that’s the time you speak to us. You know nothing so shut the fucking mouth up!
  8. ima not say Says:
    July 1st, 2009 at 1:34 pm
    uh,Let me tell ya kid,jojo ma-
    Get a life.

    Ya,gaia isnt a life sorry

  9. kiragirl2 Says:
    July 28th, 2009 at 2:51 am
    I was banned because I popped into a conversation where two pepole were cybering and said hi….I didn’t check the last page. Then they emailed me and said I was “phising.” Me and my sister are very upset (She was banned for being my friend.) and we are seeing gaia’s ads polluting almost every site I go on!
  10. portraitinblack Says:
    August 3rd, 2009 at 3:53 pm
    The site does have to make money in general to pay for the people maintaining it, to pay for the bandwidth, the ads, etc. But I think they are starting to go overboard with it, I mean how many people just don’t have the time to sit there day after day after day trying to get just a little gold? It is so easy to just blow away some real cash to get gold on the site, which is really stupid even though I can see the appeal.

    The fact of the matter is they’re caring too much about money and making it seem like that’s all they care about. Individual members don’t matter; I mean, maybe they’re banning people so they don’t have to spend as much money on maintaining their bandwidth o.O Think about it, you ban someone, do you think most of those people are going to want to go back again? But then if they cared that much I guess they’d say no more mule accounts.

    I dunno. Any site that starts offering virtual stuff to you for actual money always turns me off.

  11. Kunushi Says:
    August 13th, 2009 at 8:14 am
    Okay, for all of those who are saying “They need the money to pay for the people working there!” what part of “Well they said that monthly collectibles paid for server costs, thus meaning that all money from advertising, gold and real shop go into their pockets.” did you not understand? People non stop buy stuff from the cash shop to pay for their little fishy tanks and for their “Super awesome avatar :D” and for that THING they call an MMO (which will soon be P2P, and no, thats not player to player networking, its PAY TO PLAY!). Also, if you do your research (all of those who say they have SO many people working) they don’t. Their staff is under 100, if not under 50, people.
  12. Syam Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 11:14 am
    i got banned because i tried to log on three times from windows mobile.They banned me without saying the reason.my orbs and collectibles which i tried hard to achieve them from 3 years T_T
  13. iHeavenz Says:
    December 22nd, 2009 at 1:51 am
    If your so worked up on how they mess things up then sue them e_e
  14. Gaya Online Says:
    January 15th, 2010 at 11:26 pm
    The site is a piece of shit. I’m surprised about hearing all of this stuff about “unfair bannings”, yet I barely follow the ToS and i myself have not been banned (yet.) And don’t even get me started with the 90% of the losers who online date on the damn site.

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