[littl3chocobo]

on the other hand, and yes you already brought this up but it needs saying again, gaia /has/ the money and dev team to make these innovative things, that simply is not the case for most other sites especially ones where the team that /is/ there are also trying to hold jobs and have lives. it's a catch-22 that is tipped only with luck or serious outside help. gaia had the advantage of timing to it's benefit, it came out when the internet was only just starting to look 'pretty' and young users were starting to be able to handle money, these users see a nice safe place with really nice graphics and not many other places to go and they stayed