Gaia definitely just crossed the line.

[Smithno13]

A slimy new item has washed ashore in the Cash Shop: the mysterious Toxic Drop. Rigel and I have already cleaned a few and discovered some seriously cute critters buried underneath all the gunk.



Toxic Drop: Clean up this disgusting blob of oil to find an adorable animal companion! Ten percent of the proceeds from this item will be donated to help out with the Gulf oil spill.

You can help free these adorable critters by buying a Toxic Drop or two from the Cash Shop. These globules will only available until July 26th, so get 'em while you can.

Get a Toxic Drop

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Oh, and before we forget: Famestar Hero will be leaving the Cash Shop on the 16th. If you'd like to score an awesome item for rocking out, go grab one!

[Omlett]

rly.
"Rigel and I have already cleaned a few and discovered some seriously cute critters buried underneath all the gunk"
its like when they did that tampax promotion thing

[Google]

Another cover to make Money. I bet they only donating like 10% of the profit.

[Smithno13]

rly.
"Rigel and I have already cleaned a few and discovered some seriously cute critters buried underneath all the gunk"
its like when they did that tampax promotion thing

But tampax was paid promotion. This is just profiting off of a natural disaster.

[aXuaLiAlex]

No, they're not helping the cause at all. I bet they're like "Oh wow look at all these idiots buying from us because they think it'll 'HELP THE CAUSE' " and then Lanzer's like "Maybe we should give a lit... NAHHH"

[omgdewd]

i tried and got a crab and lold at tampax

[Bman]

This is just gaia profiting from anything that happens... As usual.

Time to start up my bots, make some gold to hoard.

[La Vie Cruelle]

What next? A starving 3rd world country baby that 5% of the proceeds goes to feeding the hungry. Good for gaia ATTEMPTING to help, but god damn I hate when companies feed off of disasters and emergencies like this.

[Neon]

Oh man, the site feedback forum RAAAAAAGGGED about this one. I really couldn't care less. Newspapers and Magazines are profiting of the natural disaster by reporting it, other oil companies are profiting simply by NOT BEING BP. Greedy or not, they did it. In my eyes, I'm glad SOME money is going to help. If I didn't think it was enough, I'd donate some of my own money directly.

[DarkEternity]

Considering the whole mess could have been cleaned up and done with if the president has put a temporary lift on the Jones Act and let Ally countries come and help clean the oil up. They offered right after it happened but the prez refused to let them in US waters. not to mention there is little being done about it to begin with to really help clean up the mess.

[rory412]

Wow umm... you guys really need perspective.

[DarkEternity]

How so Rory?

[Lostintehdark]

this is sad... they should be able to make money by the site itself rather then relying on things going around the world... 10% isn't that much of a donation to help out, I mean they did help out with the hurricane crisis though.

oh well... companies like this will always find for new ways to get money, their isn't anything we could really do about this. still they stooped down to a new low in my mind

[The Winner]

Fuck Gaia XD

[Agricola]

To be honest, Gaia could have just said, 'We arent donating any of the profit'. We should be grateful that 10% is being donated. At the end of the day, it is generating SOME money towards the crisis.

[rory412]

How so Rory?

Because at the end of the day, SOME money is going there. But peopel just have a stick up their ass about it because they like to complain. If you're going to bitch, you'd better be donating directly to a charity/down there cleaning up, or get off the soap box.

[Ash]

rory what they are doing is profiting off a disaster; they should be donating more then the pitiful 10% they make. These gaia kids are gonig to buy these items wanting to help out, since as items they are pretty ugly...
gaia is gone all earth conscience it seems even with their new rig; they are basically running out of ideas and waiting for the next thing to happen; just like the orly owl they steal all their ideas.

[TEMPTii]

rory what they are doing is profiting off a disaster; they should be donating more then the pitiful 10% they make. These gaia kids are gonig to buy these items wanting to help out, since as items they are pretty ugly...
gaia is gone all earth conscience it seems even with their new rig; they are basically running out of ideas and waiting for the next thing to happen; just like the orly owl they steal all their ideas.

10% is better than nothing. There are tons of other popular websites that donate absolutely nothing to anyone. I applaud Gaia for at least doing something.