Graal's growing popularity?
 

I have noticed a steady increase of Graal's population on servers as of late. I hope it continues. Right now there are 566 people on classic servers alone. Wow...

Thats great, whoopie.

That's not really much...on the website, about 3 months ago, it was at a total of 1000.

I must say there has been an increase over the last few years, despite the introduction of non saving trials (Which quartered the player count at the time).

I'm thinking it may have had something to do with that interview thing?

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Proabably buying servers...

Yeah, alot of new people to the forums aswell. Let's be extra nice and not call them ****s, you want graal to grow right?
Anyway, i advertise alot on different popular gaming forums and go-gaia, i make threads about graal kingdoms alone, i usually make them about graal all togethor, telling them about the kingdoms on GK and all the servers, and tells them all the good stuff about it and i say how cheap it is and that you should atleast try the trial, and post some of the best screenshots. I think we should all do it, it's nice to advertise. I reffered alot of people to graal, mostly friends.. such as the sister of some guy who played graal years ago, he went by the name "rapture" or something, but i think we should all post a thread once in awhile on different forums, but usually alot of people post "I NO LIKE ZELDARIPOIFF LOL!!!"

Yea. My brother introduced me a couple of years ago. We introduced our friend. I introduced my cousin, and blahhh.....

Some of my friends would play but they don't have the money for a p2p and im not letting em use mine :o

Oh yay...more ****s to lag Graal and make it ****ty.

Rofl.

Don't be such a pesemistic jerk. It means more subscribers so Graal can develop and bloom. Then Cyberjouers get's more money to hire more staff, and buy more machines, better, faster ones, to run the playerworlds on.

I agree.

Do the people have any other jobs? If they could make more money, then Graal would be free. >.>

Then maybe we wont have anymore problems with most the pepople that play graal cant get on ;)

That's a foolish way of looking at it, seeing as how Graal is an expensive venture to begin with. Graal is a business first and foremost, because it needs to be to survive.

Graal is their [main] job guy.

I noticed over the fall that there was at least one new forum subscriber every day for about 3 weeks.

The subscriptions are growing, but the playercount isn't a good way to try to monitor it. Lots of people get on at different hours, some only get on occasionally.

Since people are bringing this up, too:

I got my friend to start playing, as well as my brother. I've bought two P2P accounts, my brother has bought one, and my friend has bought like, 5 ?:p

My friends don't want to play Graal :(
Plus, they're broke and $20 don't come cheap to them (stupid college)

I have gotten three people to play and pay for graal, and i got one to just play it.

Most of my friends call the game stupid and retarded. I think that way now too. :(

All my friends are ***s. They think every game I play is *** or they call me *** for playing it. Oh well, not like I care. I mean, every game, not only including Graal. Meh.

Wtf?

Eh, there really is no point to the game anymore beside the community. That's all that really makes this game survive now.

I say that alot now, ever since after GK.

Okay you 3 with the same sig, make them different. It looks like your spamming it up as one account.
Hrmm excuse me but when did this phrase get introduced?
"****s come to graal and cause lagg which cause me to lagg"
Don't be an idiot, that's impossible. Close AIM and then lets see if you lagg:\
Graal has got publicity over the buying servers scheme. I'm glad more people are coming; makes it much nicer.
I got to graal through my brother and my friend, sean aka Cloud (1st one).

:/
My experiments with the bandwidth AIM uses shows that it (mine at least) doesn't use ANY while idle. Well, it's going to use a LITTLE for pinging and other random things that it no doubt does, but hardly enough to be worthy of closing.

Whilst sparring isn't idling.

I was referring to AIM...

Ah, so why does graal top 200 states otherwise?

"graal top 200"? wtf

If you're talking about what I think you are... lmao.........
All I know is the settings I have for AIM make it use almost no bandwidth whatsoever when I'm not doing anything on it. I have all of the stupid "tickers" disabled, no ads, nothing that requires any data transfer (significant amounts at least) without me doing it directly.

No, we jsut work on that server, and we support it with the banner.


And Graal survives becuase of trials.

No. Trials hurt graal.

Depends
 

Trials can be harmful yet fruitful. They get their friends to play for free and eventually they want a guild or other handy thing and have to pay. Then if its a private server, you get them to pay over and over.

As for the Graal Population thing. When people bought servers, everyone and their mother bought one. Soon after the servers suffered a lack of population because everyone was off working on those servers. People have been slowly going back to the servers after either having failed with their playerworld, or just decided to play the game rather then help build and evolve it.

With many online games being released right now and with so many competitors, I would be thankful for the population we have as is. With the release of some new playerworlds in the future, they will drag more people to Graal. I myself have recruited about 16 in my city to play graal. 4 have not paid yet or are waiting on me to buy their account.

If people just tried to advertise graal a little, and get them involved, we would have a lot more people playing. But it's up to the current servers to release new materials and keep the players happy enough to stay.

graal top 200... isn't that where all the hacker sites always become #1... Anyways, I've been there... They aren't talking about the AOL Instant Messenger on there, but, instead, the waol.exe that AOL subscribers (have them as their isp) use to connect to the internet.

Commenting on Marcus.... I probably would have discovered Graal a very long time ago if it was actually advertised... Also, it shouldn't be the players who advertise it, it should be Cyberjouers.... Whether it be internet banner ads, store flyers, etc. I know that they do try to advertise it, though they're not very good at it. I didn't even think they tried advertising until i found this page on the internet.
This site is in French, but Unixmad is on it, click here or look below.
http://www.pixelcreation.fr/news/02-...iliajcyber.jpg

More people isn't always a good thing. Our community will get more...how should i say this.."complex" and soon the globals won't have time for us. It'll be like that other BIG BIG mmorpg that starts with an R and comes from korea. I like graal just the way it is :/

Actually... if Cyberjoueurs is responsible enough, they'll probably hire some new staff with some of the profit...

Globals Time
 

I agree, they would hire more. More players can do nothing but benefit us. There would be more people to interact with, more to fight or spar, more for events and so on. Even if its people who do not pay they still attract more people.

As for people who are young and act immaturely on the game, you cannot stop it in real life, so we cannot say much about them existing in Graal. With more people we will get good and bad.

But we'll all see what happens to graal over the next year or so. Ya never know what will happen, enjoy it all while we can and hope for some good times.

One sly devil..

yes
 

lol yes. Well, I hope they do advertise but it is often hard to advertise something worldwide unless you have cash coming out of your rear. I am not sure how rich cyberjoures is but I am sure they cant. Not so much us advertising, I meant more like people show their friends and such. That's how I got so many in my city to play. Just talked about it, showed them stuff, got them involved.