[Sei]

It really is a catch-22 there, though. The users who donate currently 1) have enough funds that it isn't an issue, 2) like the feeling of using their money to 'get ahead' of other users, 3) are struggling to use newer items to leverage money for older items, or 4) have just done it for years and it's a habit now.

Only one of those situations finds donating a problem, but habits are hard to break. Those who have donated for a while are probably older users who have sunk so much money into Gaia that they can't imagine leaving and starting over - they stay, not because they want to, but because they cannot leave their inventories and start over.