Oi, nutter! Classic has been discontinued!
 

Let's discuss about it!

I don't know vvhat you're talking about, Best Classic has 1600 people online right now.

good, no one would ever host ctf future with gravity when I wanted it

:(

well done thor- hope ur happy.

What's there to discuss? A thread like this usually ends up getting locked or deleted because it always turns to bashing other members and throwing blame. Not to mention Thor, himself, has been locked out of the forums by Stefan and can't respond to any questions requiring his responses.

I want to know what will happen to the server. If Thor quit, who is the project leader? What are the plans moving forward? Where is the PWA? Can we find someone to salvage the server?

Thor does not have the authority to close the server IMO, why can't he be replaced?

maximum_anus for manager.

PWA don't (atleast historically) have any say in Classic.

I think they can make an exception in this case.

To answer your question, Classic hasn't gone anywhere bro.

http://statistics.graal.us/server/show/1216

Real talk though, you'll probably need to contact Stefan.

after what happened to thor, why would anyone want to take over?

1) There is no project leader. There are only a handful of staff who still go online anymore.

2) Why plan for something that we decided not to continue?

3) Why would you want to salvage something that is doomed to fail?

4) No, Thor does not have the authority to close the server. It was a communal decision by all the staff members to discontinue the server. I'm not going to go into the specifics but, the gist of it was that the owners of Graal don't deserve to have all of our hard work if they're just going to yank us around and give us nothing in return.

As for PWA, I haven't seen Bell at all. She's the only one that really messed with Classic.

Maybe it's not exactly "stupid" to want to continue building Classic, but it certainly is a fool's errand. What are you expecting, even if you do hit the Classic tab? What playerbase are you reaching for?

Zodiac's playerbase doesn't play classic. They play RPG. You're not getting them.
Era's playerbase doesn't play classic. They play modern/shooters. You're not getting them either.

The only playerbase you have any hopes of commanding is UN's, and that's not going to get either server anywhere. By having two classic servers, you're effectively slicing the already tiny classic playerbase in half and splitting it between servers. That leaves you with what? 10? 15 players each? What's the point?

We saw this with Babylon, and that's why we stopped trying. Maybe if Graal had a sudden surge of popularity again, this could actually be worthwhile. But right now it's not. Graal won't attract a single new player until Stefan removes the asinine monthly cost of playing an already dead PC game.