Man I took the time to read through all these comments and can only think up a few solutions.

1) Refund people RLC, some people paid yearly for this and it was not stated upfront what they would be getting (something most, if not other avatar and pet sites state with their premium items/currency). This is a new site though, so we can just overlook that as a 'you guys are still figuring things out'. Turnips are ONLY used for the gacha shop at the moment from what I've seen, so it would be fair to refund people RLC because if the perks aren't worth it what else can they spend turnips on?

2) Offer the free item at least for this month, and send out a survey or an open forum post for feedback to see what perks would be worth the subscription, listen to your userbase and learn. In this way you can earn the trust lost with this bait-and-switch/advertisement (even if it wasn't intentional, this is strongly how it came across) and move on to be a better site.


Just, please read through all of these comments and work with the users of this site to make it a site worth staying on.