And As We Stand Here, It's...
 

...without me.

Graal just isn't fun any more. There's nothing new exciting, or relatively even FUN to do.
GK used to be my favoritiest server. But then they took off items, spells, etc., and there hasn't been an update for ages. What do you want us to do, idle more than we did in 2005?
UN was a big "like" for me. The events kept me entertained. But now there's almost never any new events. AND they made events more spaced out. Wonder why Zodiac is now the leading playerworld... The only thing most people ever even did on UN was events. Have you noticed the 200 jumping down to 100 playercount at any given time? Atleast half the players were there for new and just plain old fun events.
Zodiac, after the last reset before Classic, was great. You didn't have to buy SKILLS and it was easier to get money. Now, skills, are skills. You get a skill by learning, levelling. You get better in a real skill in real life by DOING IT, not BUYING it. And taking away money from monster drops was just BS. New players can never get any money, and it's so hard to level up after level 15! MAKE MORE GOD DAMN MONSTERS AND REDUCE LAG! It's been like this for a year or two! AND NOT JUST REPLACING OLD IMAGES WITH NEW ONES!
Zone is just not fun any more. At first clicking was horrible, yes, but now it's not. This isn't what I'm complaining about. There's just nothing new to do. about once every year there is. That's it.
DON'T GIVE ME A ****ING LAME EXCUSE LIKE "We're working on something." YEAH, FOR 2 ****ING YEARS!

The global management just isn't that great.
They themselves don't hire people, not even people to hire other people. Wow, security issues! Do you see Nexon having a problem with this? JaGEx? Any other MMOG? I don't think so. Grow some balls and hire people to make atleast 1 main server. Yes, HIRE! Not just "Ok you're a global all you can do is make playerworlds Hosted and Classic" like a PWA. No, something like another Technical person like Stefan. Some Pricing management. Some people who can work with new coding like Graal. Even Animations. Just get some REAL staff.
They barely even listen to you if you're not a Gold staff! And even then it's hard to contact them! I ask Stefan about something a while ago, he says to e-mail unixmad. Days went by until I spoke with Stefan again. He said unixmad always checks his e-mails. This was what, January/February? He still hasn't responded. 2 1/2 months! Wow, that's so quick, Stefan!

The community is a vacuum. Yes, the "Your Mom's a Vacuum" joke. But seriously, it is. At least, most of it. There's few people on Graal who have either common sense, good judgement, or are just nice and even fewer who have more than two of those! GP DON'T DO THEIR ****ING JOB (most of them)! What, PM's aren't enough? Don't have your masses on ON TAG? Why would I go through and edit PMs/Masses just to get someone banned? Maybe we should have a real "report" system. Chat and PM's included. Maybe that'll get something done there.

That's all my rants. There's no reason to say anything good in my opinion. There's only a few tidbits which are. And they're a sentence each compared to those paragraphs.


People I'd like to say goodbye to:

Zone ET's and the former ones - You guys are awesome :) We had good times together.
In Specific, Dante55555 - We had the best jokes. Buckfutt, please, now.

Vulcan - You were always nice to me after that time we actually met in game. Best Global.

Crow - You taught me the basics of GS2, thanks :) Could have never understanded anything without your support on that one day.

Angelu - Your graphics have always been truly amazing. I don't know why you don't think so too, but that's your opinion.

PrinceofKenshin - You're just plain cool. You were always one of my best friends after you joined Esteria, too bad we almost never talked to eachother after :(

Aimee - I think you're like, the only girl Graal player that doesn't hate me after that fight with Lisa (ugh, she's so damn annoying!). You rockzerz. Hope you get PWA :)

Hikaru - Always giving me some sort of opportunity for something. Thanks :)

If I forgot you post back. I really, really doubt I did. If I'm wrong, then sorry.


I'll be on the forums occassionally.


"I'll hold out just as long as you (Tonight is the night we examine ourselves)
Don't hold back, don't hold nothing back tonight
We'll let it take control, using you tonight
Don't hold back, don't hold nothing back tonight
We'll let it take control, using you tonight"
-The Sleeping


Edit:
I first made this a thread to show that I'm quitting, and its reason. But I think now it's both that and a way to get some message across to Stefan.

Cya Switch..Good Luck in Life! :)

I hear the screeching prepubescent shrill cries as I read this.

Cya in 2-3 hours

That's why I've already not been on for a week+, and only posted this today?

Listen, it's pathetic that when you quit you go off on tantrums and change your signature, avatar or whatever you have to try and seem like you know anything. Reading into this post, your misleading criticism is so pathetic I think I could break into tears.

I see your 2-3 hours and raise you 1 hour.

I show my cards.

3 aces 2 kings

we both lose anyway, because he's on the forums.

These critisisms have been growing. Don't tell me my "misleading critisism". It's not. You know it's the truth.
I only changed my signature and profile thingy because they don't fits no mores.
I said I'd be on the forums occasionaly.

Who cares if he'll be back? We see this every single time someone quits, or 'quits'. It's not the fact that you're accusing him, but that you see it in every single quitting Graal thread and it's annoying to see over and over. People go, "blah blah, you'll be back!" Maybe he won't, people have quit before--look at the damn population. If you want to mock someone for not quitting, please do so in their future post that disproves their supposed quitting. At least then you'll have proof for your accusations.

Why are you on the forums of a game you quit on? I don't have to be a therapist to say that if you're going back to part of a community, you desire to belong in the community.

Listen, I'll break down your misleading criticism for you.


Opinion.

They took things off, okay, but I constantly see nonsense in the updates talking about GK. I wouldn't say they're completely shut away from new content at all.

Tons of new content is days away from release. My, have you heard of Town Takeover? I don't know if I'm allowed to tell you either, but there's a new shop coming along in a few days with some really useful NPCs.

Zodiac was addictive and fun the last time I played it, even though the images sucked monkey babies.

They work on this a lot too...look at updates.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. They want the best of the best on there team. If they hired people like you all the time, the game would be in a worse position then you think it is right now. The amount of knowledge and experience they need to have to do what you think is simple makes you sound dumber then ever.

I hear complaints a lot, I'm not in there heads so I dunno why.

There's plenty of reasons people would edit stuff to get others banned. I dunno who you're complaining about, but GPs don't do jack on UN...you have to literally be looking to be jailed to get jailed anymore, honestly.

Quit posting. If you don't want Graal, we don't want you here. If you can't appreciate the game these forums were made for, why do you support them? Go away. If you hate Graal so much, if you're so tired of it, shut up and leave.

No, it doesn't. Tons of ex-players are still in the forums.

They say they're WORKING on stuff. And when they do release it, it's still crappy.

I don't really care. We need EP for those NPCs most likely, or 10000 gralat.

And you think they're good enough to keep playing?

And I said hire people like me when? I said to actually HIRE people.

There is barely any respect from others, towards others on Graal. Sad.....

By Switch.
Although I dont agree with everything that you posted, I respect your decision to quit, and hope you will eventually come back.

who, people who have a rate of a post a month?

That means they are releasing things. Maybe not things you like, but it's things.

The new mining and fishing system makes gralat actually enjoyable to obtain. Log on and try it out.

Hey, you said there "were no updates." Whether or not they're good isn't my call, it's yours, but they definitely update.

Most people are like you with an elitest mind of "change everything it all sucks," and forget about how unreasonable that sounds.

Terrible attitude, and it's not just because you're being a jerk.
I'm hardly ever on the client, and I certainly don't play on any of the servers. They aren't really fun, I find the forums more entertaining than the game... is there a problem with that? Technically, you have to pay for access to the forums so we're just as much contributing to the game financially as the person who plays GK or Zone.
I just like sticking around on the forums, contributing where I can, and just discussing whatever I see that peaks my interest. I have a lot of negative feelings to Graal and the way things are done... and not(anyone who's gotten into one of 'those chats' with me about Graal can attest), but that doesn't mean I don't still like helping and talking with the people around here.