Gaia Online, the world’s most active online community, is offering New York Comic-Con attendees the first chance to win access to the Gaia Online casual massively multiplayer online game (MMO). In development since 2007, a closed beta version of the Gaia Online MMO is scheduled for release this summer, and will give the community a new way to play, socialize, and explore. The contest will take place Friday, April 18 through Sunday, April 20 in booth #1357 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.
"The idea for our casual MMO came from our five million active members," said Craig Sherman, CEO of gaia gold. "In our community forums, they asked for a new way to play games and interact with their friends. The MMO is our answer to their request, and our gaia gold community is the perfect platform for this type of game."
Gaia Online’s casual MMO is a wholly flash-based environment that is free and requires no downloads. Several new features will be available within the MMO including quests, monster battles and exploration, which only add to the current features that gaia online gold community is familiar with, like playing mini games.
Gaians - the member community of gaia online gold - and visitors to Comic-Con, are encouraged to attend the convention and stop by Gaia Online’s booth for a chance to win a ticket to the closed beta. The golden ticket contest will allow those lucky few the first chance to experience the MMO. More great prizes will be given away at the booth as well, such as Gaia Cards, special promotional cards that carry various amounts of the currency used in Gaia Online.
There are a half million new posts daily in the site’s community forums. And Sherman said Gaia Online is the No. 2 art community on the web with 100,000 virtual goods auctioned daily. On a dollar basis, about ?1 million in virtual goods transactions take place each month. Sherman said those stats show that it is a more active place than many of the biggest social networks.
