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Originally Posted by Yokuutsu
Most small businesses fail in 5 years or less, and avatar websites can be small businesses since they do sell pixel items for real money?
-one thing I learned from my business classes- Wooo
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And it's sad because Trisphee is 5 years old or at least almost 5... Are we talking open years, or beta years?
I wouldn't be surprised if this site is closed down soon. The site is hanging on a thread and support for the site is tossed around or in hands of very few people who put a ton of effort in to keep this running. But other then that there are plans for the site, that.. Just can't get a leg in. People have their own lives, and have sadly lost interest in the site.
We have threads trying to get people in, great suggestions thrown around but I think it's at the point where the site is going to die simply because no one is truly running the site, only backing it up and holding it from collapsing. But it won't be too long until someone gets tired out and has Trisphee collapse on the,.
We never advertised it was only by word of mouth, no ads = no extra revenue, no gimmicks to keep people here, a lot of people have moved on from Gaia but we never truly tried to capture that audience, and their is simply no value left in the site. :/
But I've noticed the trend the more I talk down about how Trisphee is fairing the worse the site gets. So I question whether bringing up the problems is bad because it's scaring people away in some way, or if it's bad to bring up these problems and never to have any single one solved for years now.
Nintendo for example is proof that Avatar sites aren't dead. (I know their a video game company, just hear me out.) People have been stating right when the Wii U was released it was dead, look at it now. Japan's audiences said console gaming was dead, look at the Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One. People tell Nintendo that their games don't sell LOOK AT THE BLOODY TOP SELLING GAMES OF THIS YEAR. The say can be said about animated movies, then poof! Here comes Frozen.
What I learned from any of these companies you just keep supporting something with the intention to keep improving until you hit gold. And Trisphee kept improving until it hit huge setbacks, people left, and then it became the way it is now. :/ I spit on the idealism of the new factor, but I can't deny there are some elements from that idealism in the works.
-Shrugs- I like to bring up problems and spot them, I'll occasionally suggest solutions that go unused. So I try to not bother with that anymore. This site is definitely going to die the way it's going, but I'm just going to have the most fun I can with everyone until it's gone.