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CreationNation · 06-24-2006, 03:29 PM

You guys see this news the other day?

http://mashable.com/2006/06/19/gaia-...ime-community/

Amazing stuff! I knew of this site but didn't realize how much it had branched out into other areas (like the 3d chat thing).

Makes me want to rethink about the importance/expandability of my community!

joe · 06-24-2006, 03:31 PM

Yea, it's huge and runs on a heavily modded phpBB.

I wonder how much it makes aside from that venture capital.

NtodaS · 06-24-2006, 03:35 PM

Sick, in asia that cartoon style really is an everyday thing like we get to see comercials and things. Never thought forums could grow out to be like this. this is not a community it's more like a world

a.titus1 · 06-24-2006, 03:38 PM

Thats actually rather brilliant - they managed to take advantage of the MMO boom in a completely different way. I wonder if well see a lot of copycats spring up (if there arent a lot already).

CreationNation · 06-24-2006, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by joe

Yea, it's huge and runs on a heavily modded phpBB.

I wonder how much it makes aside from that venture capital.

Yeah I read somewhere that at this point it is so far modded it isn't even PHPBB any more.

VinSVT · 06-24-2006, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by a.titus1

Thats actually rather brilliant - they managed to take advantage of the MMO boom in a completely different way. I wonder if well see a lot of copycats spring up (if there arent a lot already).

No doubt... the MMO boom is huge and these guys picked right up on it.

SiNJoy · 06-24-2006, 04:38 PM

lol there lots of these things around. Think I've seen like 4 diff ones so far, this must be the most succesful tho

CreationNation · 06-24-2006, 04:56 PM

Yeah communties are a dime a dozen, its when you get those that really syand out and push ahead that make you take notice and look into "what are these guys doing that I can learn from and apply to MY site."

Jon · 06-24-2006, 05:15 PM

Those avatar style RPG's are insane. I remember demo'ing an adult oriented one back in 2001, and I just never understood how people were so addicted to it. Those sites make a killing.. Anyone hear a cash register?

peach · 06-24-2006, 05:17 PM

Yep, Gaia is the largest forum on the net, the owner did a great job on the community. I've heard they have like an entire building stuffed with servers for themselves.

Andrew · 06-24-2006, 05:34 PM

I was involved in building an avatar world back in late 2003, early 2004. The lead programmer had some personal problems that really killed it.

World of Warcraft brings in $900 million in revenue a year. These things are not going away.

NtodaS · 06-24-2006, 05:38 PM

Yeah and Blizzard (producent of world of warcraft) still want money for their expansion pack :/

Succesfull like hell, and still greedy

shokthx · 06-24-2006, 05:56 PM

You don't expect them to do it for free do you.

shokthx

a.titus1 · 06-24-2006, 06:01 PM

Blizzard hasnt made out as well as you might think. Or at least blizzard as a whole. Vivendi has though. A buddy of mine who works as an artist and knows a few people from blizzard told me a lot of the senior WoW employees left because of dissatisfaction with how they were treated in terms of compensation because it did so well.

Long story short, you might know another game they put out, called guild wars

Andrew · 06-24-2006, 06:13 PM

Oh yeah, I think the original guys at blizzard are all gone. They wanted to take WoW in a different direction, instead they ended up with an EQ in a Warcraft universe.

Max · 06-24-2006, 07:19 PM

I don't know the whole story with Blizzard but a lot of their employees from Diablo/Diablo 2 left and made Guild Wars which is now fairly popular for a first release.

Michael · 06-24-2006, 08:50 PM

Yea heard about this, im sure with money like that they could really advertise / improve their site

donn · 06-24-2006, 10:06 PM

Big money for the first person to do this kind of thing here.

A-D · 06-25-2006, 12:22 AM

Amazing the growth that forum has had i remember this old article http://www.big-boards.com/int.php?n=60 its grown massively since then.

a.titus1 · 06-25-2006, 12:28 AM

The costs for it had to be significant though, with the pixel artists for their "MMO." Definately some money to be made though with something similar, by taking advantage of the addictiveness of the whole MMO thing.

06-24-2006, 03:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
CreationNation Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Manassas, VA USA Posts: 306	GaiaOnline community gets $$ You guys see this news the other day? http://mashable.com/2006/06/19/gaia-...ime-community/ Amazing stuff! I knew of this site but didn't realize how much it had branched out into other areas (like the 3d chat thing). Makes me want to rethink about the importance/expandability of my community!

06-24-2006, 04:56 PM	#8 (permalink)
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06-24-2006, 05:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
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06-24-2006, 03:31 PM	#2 (permalink)
joe Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Charlotte Posts: 1,710	Yea, it's huge and runs on a heavily modded phpBB. I wonder how much it makes aside from that venture capital.

06-24-2006, 03:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
NtodaS super postwhore delux Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Netherlands Posts: 287	Sick, in asia that cartoon style really is an everyday thing like we get to see comercials and things. Never thought forums could grow out to be like this. this is not a community it's more like a world

06-24-2006, 03:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
a.titus1 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 566	Thats actually rather brilliant - they managed to take advantage of the MMO boom in a completely different way. I wonder if well see a lot of copycats spring up (if there arent a lot already).

06-24-2006, 04:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
SiNJoy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 101	lol there lots of these things around. Think I've seen like 4 diff ones so far, this must be the most succesful tho

06-24-2006, 05:34 PM	#11 (permalink)
Andrew Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,009	I was involved in building an avatar world back in late 2003, early 2004. The lead programmer had some personal problems that really killed it. World of Warcraft brings in $900 million in revenue a year. These things are not going away.

06-24-2006, 05:38 PM	#12 (permalink)
NtodaS super postwhore delux Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Netherlands Posts: 287	Yeah and Blizzard (producent of world of warcraft) still want money for their expansion pack :/ Succesfull like hell, and still greedy

06-24-2006, 05:56 PM	#13 (permalink)
shokthx Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 182	You don't expect them to do it for free do you. shokthx

06-24-2006, 06:01 PM	#14 (permalink)
a.titus1 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 566	Blizzard hasnt made out as well as you might think. Or at least blizzard as a whole. Vivendi has though. A buddy of mine who works as an artist and knows a few people from blizzard told me a lot of the senior WoW employees left because of dissatisfaction with how they were treated in terms of compensation because it did so well. Long story short, you might know another game they put out, called guild wars

06-24-2006, 06:13 PM	#15 (permalink)
Andrew Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 2,009	Oh yeah, I think the original guys at blizzard are all gone. They wanted to take WoW in a different direction, instead they ended up with an EQ in a Warcraft universe.

06-24-2006, 07:19 PM	#16 (permalink)
Max Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 205	I don't know the whole story with Blizzard but a lot of their employees from Diablo/Diablo 2 left and made Guild Wars which is now fairly popular for a first release.

06-24-2006, 10:06 PM	#18 (permalink)
donn Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 446	Big money for the first person to do this kind of thing here.

06-25-2006, 12:22 AM	#19 (permalink)
A-D NSFW Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: London Posts: 298	Amazing the growth that forum has had i remember this old article http://www.big-boards.com/int.php?n=60 its grown massively since then.

06-25-2006, 12:28 AM	#20 (permalink)
a.titus1 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 566	The costs for it had to be significant though, with the pixel artists for their "MMO." Definately some money to be made though with something similar, by taking advantage of the addictiveness of the whole MMO thing.