Sunday, July 22, 2007

Gaia Online

When I saw how popular and active www.GaiaOnline.com is, I was wondering how exactly that got so popular. With "Who is Online? - 59795 users. (53630 visible, 3127 hidden, 3038 guests)." at the time I checked, that's roughly the same amount of users as www.plentyoffish.com (POF), and incase anyone didn't know POF makes over $10,000 per day from Adsense alone. So I would imagine that Gaia makes a similar amount, but they also have an online store among other things so they could have the potential to make alot more then that even. So what's the story behind Gaia? Did it spread via word of mouth? Did they advertise?

I gave Gaia a 4-hour test to see how it goes. From what I can tell is that it's a grinding site. You surf on it, you earn gold. You play games on it, you earn gold. You walk around in the virtual universe and can find gold. With that gold you can tweak your character's appearance and such. Almost makes it feel like Pokemon's "gotta catch'm all!" type of thing. I can see why it's addicting and why it gets people.

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