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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 03/10/2026

October Company Update: Hot As Hell www.gaiaonline.com/forum/items-...

Greetings, Gaians!

Spooky Season is upon us! And just in time, too, because it's hot as hell around here, and we could really use a chill or two to keep us cool.

Lanzer has been carefully monitoring platinum payouts for a while now. And with the information he's gathered, he's found a better balance for the system. What that means for you is a bump in earnings starting this week! He will, of course, continue to keep an eye on things and make further adjustments as needed.

In between continuing work on the site redesign project, we're still making time to consider and implement smaller quality of life updates based on requests. Some have already been implemented (e.g. forum search) while others are still being evaluated and planned out (e.g. inventory filters). Otherwise, we're still trying to get a handle on the 403 errors that have been affecting some users.

Overall, we're trying to make minor improvements as we can while still making progress towards are larger goals. And that's all for now. Hope your month is more treat than trick!

Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 23/09/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 18/09/2026

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New Rare Event!

Be on the lookout for the newest rare event: the Plat Cat!

If you see this little guy flying around your screen, give them a pet (click) to collect your prize.

Plat Cat can be opened from the special tab of your inventory. Every Plat Cat contains a minimum of 1000 platinum. If you're extra lucky, you could find up to 10,000 platinum!

With the addition of the Plat Cat, we are officially retiring Pink Links. You will no longer be able to find them around the site but you can still open any existing ones in your inventory.

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 15/09/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 24/08/2026

August Company Update: In-tents Adventures www.gaiaonline.com/forum/items-...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 22/08/2026

Let's hang! www.gaiaonline.com/avichat/

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 05/08/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 18/07/2026

All Fluff Catharsis Bundle! www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/... Try on NEW Cathartic Yeoleumi! www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 16/07/2026

July Company Update: 💅 www.gaiaonline.com/forum/items-...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 14/07/2026

NEW: Bunny Vibe Accessories! Try them on: www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 10/07/2026

Say hello to our new look! www.gaiaonline.com/forum/site-f...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 26/06/2026

Come hang! Game Room #2! www.gaiaonline.com/avichat/

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 20/06/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 16/06/2026

June Company Update: Sunny Days Ahead

Greetings, Gaians!

With summer on its way, the weather's been super sunny. And our outlook has been too! Because after months of seemingly endless struggles, things have been much more stable lately. *looks around and waits for a piano to fall on our heads* Phew. The migration is now officially complete! And Lanzer is also allowed to sleep again! So, we hope you'll join us in celebrating those victories. We are, of course, aware that there are still some remaining issues and interruptions, but Lanzer is working through them, constantly monitoring and adjusting the web server configurations to reduce their frequency. Thank you again for you patience as we put the finishing touches on what has been an excruciatingly long and difficult process for everyone!

As we continue to look toward the future, our first major change has been one that was actually years in the making. And that's the official transition from gold to platinum. For those of you who had already switched to platinum, this won't have made much of a difference in your use of the site. But if you previously had your account set to gold, we understand and appreciate that for you there will be an adjustment period. We also wanted to use this opportunity to remind everyone that no currency was lost in the changeover. 1 platinum is equal to 10,000,000 (ten million) gold. It is simply an exchange rate; nothing was taken away and both currencies have the same buying power. And now that we're all using the same currency again, Lanzer should be able to get a clearer picture of what payouts look like from all features and better balance them across the site.

Meanwhile, work continues on both the site re-design and, what we hope will be, some exciting new features! Thanks again for sticking with us through everything. We can't wait to move forward together!

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 13/06/2026

Come hang! www.gaiaonline.com/avichat/

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 01/06/2026

Giftcards are back in stock! Offers are a great way to flip GCash for Platinum! www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 29/05/2026

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Gaia Transitioning from Gold to Platinum Next Week

The long awaited Platinum transition is finally upon us. With the new designs under way, we will be focusing on a one currency system moving forward. What this means is that everyone's currency setting will be permanently set as "Platinum" moving forward.

The transition will take place a week from now, on Monday, June 8th. Better payout for Gaia flash games will also happen at that time, and we will continue to re-balance payout for all Gaia activities moving forward.

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 27/05/2026

Looking to flip your GCash for plat fast? Check out these offers! www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 05/05/2026

Addressing Concerns There had been some questions and concerns recently about Gaia's stance on the use of generative AI and cryptocurrency, as well as how Gaia funds are being used. I hope the following will clear things up and offer some reassurance! www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-c... 1/? 🧵

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 02/05/2026

Inventory rollback for May 2nd www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-c...

Inventory rollback for May 2nd

Due to an error in the platinum economy system, we had a terrible bug that ruined any transactions made between 2:30AM and 7AM, PST. We had to disable all purchases and trading as we deal with the issue.

Unfortunately we had to perform a roll back due to this error. The following systems had their data rolled back to May 2nd, at 3AM:

- User inventory
- Marketplace
- Trading

If you do not see the correct gold or platinum values on the site header, please logout and re-login for the numbers to update.

For those who had purchased items during this time period. Those items will need to be re-purchased.

There are a number of issues that the roll back will have caused, including the loss of data for users who registered today between 3AM to 12PM. We are working to restore those accounts as we speak.

I'm very sorry for the trouble this had caused. We're working on a number of additional testing protocols to prevent these types of issues from happening in the future.

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 02/05/2026

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Bonus payout this week and update on future gold payout

We know that all the recent infrastructure upgrades have caused much frustration due to the long downtime you’ve experienced. We want to once again apologize and acknowledge that this hasn’t been the seamless experience you deserve. We can only promise that with the new system in place and changes locked down, Gaia will become more stable and secure moving forward.

As a gesture of our gratitude for sticking with us through these improvements, we had made some changes to Gaia's gold payouts.

For this week, we had significantly increased gold payouts across the board. This bonus will continue till next Tuesday, May 7th. We hope this gives you a chance to earn a little extra as we finalize our new infrastructure.

Once the bonus period ends, gold payouts will return to our standard baseline, but with a permanent 30% (1.3x) increase compared to the rates we had last week. This is our way of ensuring that the baseline experience is better than it was before the upgrades began.

As part of the infrastructure changes, our new Gold Payout Adjustment System is now online. This automated system will allow us to dynamically manage and adjust payout rates more consistently in the future. We will also be revisiting the payout of all our activities including Flash games to ensure more up to date and meaningful payouts.

Thank you for your patience throughout the mess. We are committed to making these technical improvements worth it, and we can’t wait to show you what’s coming next.

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 28/04/2026

Spring cleaning is done. Sorry for the downtime! www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-c...

Spring cleaning is done. Sorry for the downtime!

The various web and database server upgrades were a long-standing project for Gaia that took months to complete. At the end we had overhauled every system on our backend:

-Upgraded all web servers to latest operating system and PHP 8
-Committed thousands of changes to make Gaia compliant to new PHP 8
-GSI servers, job systems, and scheduler servers all were upgraded
-Upgraded database server to latest operating system with MYSQL 8
-Better daily database backup system
-Re-organized database across servers to distribute load
-Setup site wide firewall to deal with intrusion attacks and DDOS attacks
-Setup automatic OS security updates
-Upgraded Opensearch engine for forum and user search
-Memory caching servers upgraded
-New monitoring system for all services
-New staging server with unit tests to validate new code before going live
-New code deployment pipeline for faster code updates
-New bug tracker

Many of these changes were overdue and postponed because the "upgrade database server" task alone required 120 hours of work. But the updates will pave the way of new site redesign and frameworks for a more responsive Gaia experience down the road.

Unfortunately, some changes still had serious bugs to sort out, as the "automatic OS security updates" caused a major outage yesterday, and once again I'm very sorry for all the frustrations due to the downtimes.

We placed a lot more emphasis on reporting and alerts for our new system, but with so many changes happening at once, it inevitably caused many unforeseen issues. All major work are now complete, and we'll continue to work diligently to ensure servers stay up moving forward.

Thank you for your patience and understanding through all this mess, and please look forward to the new redesign and features to come!

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 02/04/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 01/04/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 31/03/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 21/02/2026

February Company Update: Cheers to 23 Years!

Greetings, Gaians!

We hope you had a lovely Valentine's Day! This year, by special request, we brought back the classic Valentine Generator! This love-filled event will be running until the end of the month and lets you send letters to your fellow Gaians as well as many of our NPCs. If you haven't had a chance to check it out, just click on the heart in the header to get started!

The long and arduous task of upgrading the web server is finally (thankfully!) coming to an end. This project involved making changes to over 19,000 files and implementing thousands of bug fixes. And we're heading into the home stretch! As far as what you can expect with the upgrade? The new code compiler is much more strict, so it should ensure that there is less bad code floating around Gaia causing trouble!! You should also get a small boost to loading speed thanks to the newest caching servers. Overall, you can expect better performance and higher security. And on our end, we're looking forward to making use of newer tools for the site re-design!

As you probably know, it's our birthday! We'd party like it, but we're pretty busy at the moment. Maybe one day! In the meantime, here's a special Gaiaversary message from Lanzer:

It's hard to believe that Gaia will be 23 years old in a few days! For many Gaians that's more than half a lifetime. It's amazing that we've been through so many holiday events, so many feature releases, site outages, and hanging out together all this time. You know, the one moment I realized that I wanted to build Gaia was when I spent more time chatting with other players on an MMORPG game than actually playing the game itself. Though nothing would had prepared me for the amount of years that I would get to chat, have fun, and make countless great friends along the way. I am the luckiest person ever and it's all thanks you every one of you being a part of Gaia!

Happy Gaiaversary to all! Until next time!

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 18/02/2026

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Dear Gaians,

Today marks 23 amazing years since Gaia Online first went online on February 18, 2003. From a small anime link list plus hangout site that started in a garage by us few anime nerds, we've grown into a world filled with your creativity, stories, friendships, and endless adventures (or drama :).

Whether you've been here since Reina and Leon greeted you at Barton Town during registration, joined during the era of the alien invation and zOMG rallies, discovered us in Towns or Rally hangouts, or hopped in recently to see what Gaia is all about, we thank you for being a part of our community!

2026 is an exciting year as we get ready for some redesign work to bring Gaia to a new level. We would like to take this opportunity to ask for your opinions on where we should place our focus. Additionally, we would like to ask all Gaians to share their most memorable moments you have at Gaia with the rest of the community. Most liked memories will be featured on the leaderboard for bragging rights!

We can't wait to hear what you have to share!

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 14/02/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 09/02/2026

As it's available to register a new account with, it's not an email currently in use on Gaia Online, fwiw

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 24/01/2026

Staff Notice: Completed Quests and Badges Fixed www.gaiaonline.com/forum/gaia-c...

There had been a bug where completed quests or zOMG badges do not appear in the quest list. As it turns out there was a compatibility issue with the new database where the completion date was not entered correctly during quest completion. That in turn caused the completed quests to not appear because of the missing data.

All the missing completed quests will now appear in your quest list. Unfortunately there isn't a way for us to find out exactly when those quests were originally completed. As a result, all quests and badges completed between July 2025 to Jan 2026 will all be marked as completed on Jan 22, 2026.

I'm very sorry for the issue this had caused.

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 22/01/2026

January Company Update: Happy New Year! www.gaiaonline.com/gaiaevent/wi... www.gaiaonline.com/forum/avatar...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 10/01/2026

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 01/01/2026

The Runway Vouchers formula was added to Alchemy on 29 Mar 2025: www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/... Between then and years end: - 3,250,500 Platinum was sunk (formula & crafting costs) - 7,683 Runway Vouchers were created, each covers an entry into Runway's GC contest. www.gaiaonline.com/runway/

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 23/12/2025

Staff Notice: Christmas Event Caroling Bug Fixed

Christmas Event Caroling Bug Fixed

We've applied another fix for the Caroling issue which caused sometimes would cause your progress to reset. Sorry for the long wait as we figure out this tricky bug.

To compensate for your lost time, we have removed any cool down timer for your first 10 caroling prizes. (Festive 2025 Giftbox) As long as you haven't received your first set of caroling items, you should be able to quickly earn your prizes.

Merry Christmas everyone and hope you have a wonderful new year!

PS - the timer will take in effect at on Dec 22, 7:15PM, PST

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 22/12/2025

NEW! #Holiday Landscapes & #Winter Landscapes, [Animal] Holiday Landscapes & [Animal] Winter Landscapes! 🌲🔥❄️☃️🎁

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 13/12/2025

Looking for a quick way to flip your GCash into Platinum? GCash Giftcards are back in La Victoire! See the offers you can accept here! www.gaiaonline.com/marketplace/...

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 11/12/2025

Dec 12 zOMG Invitation – A Special Remembrance for Mavdoc

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Gaia Online @gaiaonline.com · 11/12/2025

Without looking it up, do you know the name of this color scheme? www.gaiaonline.com/avichat/

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