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i cant give you any names but i have sent in a few tickets... the replies were always prompt and very civil tho brief.

Please understand im not saying they were BAD. I'm saying they werent 'visible'. There was no face to the names besides Selfy. Of course if you chatted to them behind the scenes, sent in tickets and feedback then all the more power to you. But TM had no visible mods. There was no one to MM if you had problems. You had to send in a ticket like everyone else.

Staff/Management: Gaia seems to have the advantage when it comes to staff. They do listen to their users, tell their users what's going on (nowadays), and do reply to threads. They also address issues fairly quickly, and glitches don't last very long. Whereas I feel TinierMe had LOUSY staff. Well.. as of the last three months, anyway. They never told us anything, and stopped replying to us. sad . I know they used to post on the forums all the time, and were in towns.

Currencies:
They're really the same IMO. While Gaia does have the advantage of being able to buy cash items through the marketplace, the only way to get said gold is to either get lucky and win some rare item from a RIG or play the same game over and OVER again. D:. On TM, the same aforementioned 'rare' items are the tickets to getting anything worthwhile. Like they are here. Though at least the 'desirable' items were actually obtainable on TM. People didn't always set high prices for the same item (depending on how they felt about the item), whereas they do on Gaia. Prices are pretty much set in stone on Gaia, whereas on TM it depended on how the user valued it above all.

NPCs: Gaia definitely has better NPCs. The NPCs here have personalities, and stories. The TM ones were amusing, but not very interesting.

Events: I liked TM's events more, but only because they appeared a lot more often. They were also more fun to do. Gaia has nice events, but they can get tedious. I never felt that way about TM.

Items: I REALLY feel TM had better items. The items on TM were a lot cuter, and were better detailed. They also had a lot more items that were my style than Gaia does. Gaia does have SOME nice items (Old EI items fall into this category), but not nearly as many as TM. As for moots, I actually feel that Gaia has better items. A lot of TM's moots were(to me) pointless, and weren't really all that special. Gaia's moots are useful for the most part, and because they're released so seldom, they're really special too.

Closet:
Gaia's is a bit better because more items are laid out at once. But I do like how TM allowed folders for items.

Gachas V. RIGs: I prefer gachas, but only because it seemed easier to me to get what I wanted. With TMs gachas, only items from that specific gacha are options. On Gaia, old items are also possibilities. Which lowers the chance of getting what I want even more. At least with TM, I knew I was getting something from the gacha I was playing.

Games: Gaia definitely wins. I hated DokiDoki, I couldn't find time to play Old Maid, and I never got around to playinf Sevens. On Gaia, I can play Tiles, which is fun, ELF, put puzzles together, or play Booty Grab. They're more fun, IMO.

Forums: Gaia has better forums by FAR. We're allowed signatures here, there are a lot of subforums to post on, and we're not limited to a certain number of characters.

Alchemy: TM had a better alchemy system. I HATE Gaia's system. TM only required two items to merge together. While the result was random, it required a lot less time and money to get an item. While Gaia's resulting item from alchemy is guaranteed, the effort needed to get it makes the gamble seem more appealing. It probably still costs less money to fuse items than to get just one Gaia alchemy item. >_<;.

Diaries/Journals: They're the same to me.

Towns: I prefered Selfy Town. It was a lot easier to navigate, and expressions were easier to convey. Additionally, Selfies actually walk, and don't have their backgrounds trailing after them. The avatars here have awkward feet movements, and honestly, nice looking backgrounds look silly in towns. I don't know why those aren't removed in towns.

Guilds/Groups: Gaia has better groups. Extra forums are a possibility, moderaters can officially be appointed, and posts actually have a post count here. Pictures are also visible here, whereas they're not on TM.

Just to put in some input, no I never saw any TM staff in the forums, mostly because I lurked in the normal forums only recently (past year). I normally stayed within group forums tbh.

And when I said about tickets, I know they put their real name at the end of the ticket. I do recognize the names Alice, Emma and Helen (funny because I've only sent in 3 tickets ever, they each replied to 1 of the 3). But some of the messages didn't even answer my question and I knew were just an automated message. And I still have no idea which staff member (if they're actual members of the site, ex: Ylfa) are replying.

It seems a bit impersonal to me, Gaia staff at least have a face on the site and their own accounts and will interact both in professional and casual replies depending on circumstances. Maybe I'm not giving a fair chance to TM staff, since I've been on TM almost 3 years and Gaia 5 years. But I feel thats enough time to see both sides.

Oh my gosh, yeah!! I love the creative possibilities you can make with your avis! Existential Existence (I think that's his/her name?) makes the best scenic avis!! whee

Whoa, I didn't know that was a rule. xd But yeah, I always wondered how TM managed to moderate the whole site with such a small staff. I guess most of the people behind the scenes didn't have selfies themselves? confused And this is a specific complaint, but it really bothered me that we couldn't add mods to groups or change the admin. >n<

I agree 100% with everything you say, too! xd We think very alike. eek

Its nice to hear from someone who's new to both sites! surprised

Yeah, I just checked out the new Beginner's Guide in TM and it looks awesome. gonk Too bad all the effort was for nothing... Gaia should definitely make one of those, too! And yeah, I can see how Gaia seems cluttered because they have so many little features compared to TM and it's harder to organize everything into a simple layout. But I'm sure Gaia will improve on this with time--I hope soon since it bothers me a little, too! And the daily chance is getting a revamp! And it's coincidental how it's a gacha machine. emotion_awesome

I will miss my poor dirty Bochakin, too!! crying I don't know if I should bring him to life just to let him witness the end of SelfyWorld.

Just like Vyli xd , I've only sent in tickets a few times because every time I did their replies were copy and paste text that didn't help or even answer my question. So I didn't even bother to read their names. xd I think if you initiated contact with staff at either site, the Gaia staff would be more prone to reply back and be more friendly and/or helpful.

For example, siskataya is an admin here who is super helpful and friendly--she's helped me out once before and chatted with me! 3nodding It seems like she's the one behind Gaia trying to reach out to the users for feedback, so I really like her! And though it's hard to get the admins to answer your questions in the Ask the Admin thread every week, I appreciate that they at least have it.

I didn't know the TM staff posted in the forums! surprised And I never got to catch a sponsor in SelfyTown, but I've seen screencaps. sad But yeah, I was really annoyed with the closing because their notice was so brief and I felt like they owed us an explanation. The fact that we have to hear about the reason for the closing through a sponsor just really says it all about their relationship with their users. I know the reason was money, but if they had explained with a little more detail I would've been more understanding. But oh well, what's done is done.

Yeah, it would be nice if Gaia removed backgrounds on avis in Towns. I kind of like our cartoon running animated feet in Gaia Towns, though. xd And it was really cool how we could animate our Selfy to express emotions. sad

I'm soo glad TM allowed HTML (however sucky it is) in the group threads. If they didn't, I wouldn't even have bothered with groups as I didn't with the forums. TM's forums were just so impractical that I didn't bother wasting time on there.

Yess, I hated events that took place in SelfyTown because it was soo laggy. Like, sometimes before I had to go out somewhere I would try to claim my hourly event item in SelfyTown right before I headed out and I would literally be waiting like 5 minutes for the stupid NPC to gimme the item and then I'd be like... wtf am I doing, I'm late. classified_fu Seriously, those incidents were my biggest tests of patience. xd

Both have their goods and bads, to be honest