[unixmad]

What's about million of people making web pages on blobs, do they work for free for the company hosting the blobs? No, they do what they like to do.

When some people are reading web pages some others are using creativity to write text and make everyone enjoy what they do.

They don't make money with what they do but they make experience, if one day they have opportunity to create there own business they will have skills and experience.

Graal is the same for games, we give opportunity to player to create games and manage most of the administration of games. Some player world manager will only do for fun but some others will work in the game industry (we have lot of example of Graal players that work in the game industry) .

You say that we have not improved the restaurant since P2P, do you really play Graal ? If I count number of professional people that have worked on Graal we have probably spent more than 50 man year of work to make graal.

Making an Online game is not only programmers but graphic designers, Web Designer, Web scripters, Computer technicians, Network Technicians, Administrative Staff to manage office, payment of Staff, State taxes …

To manage a Online game you need lot of hidden charges including the renting of a office (We have a dedicated house for Graal staff), Computers and Network (We are renting a dedicated space in a Paris datacenter with 3 complete racks, We have more than 30 rackable computers, we have a dedicated Gigabit network with Cisco routers ( 2 X 6509 cisco switch/routers ) , we have dedicated tape robots to be able to archive backups for 2 months. We have NFS servers to store data in a safe way. That’s a lot of money.

Graal have more diversity than any other game and give opportunities to everyone loving 2D games to play what they like. Our goal is not to make a clone of Ultima Online but to create lot of diversity to make everyone find a style of 2D world to enjoy playing. Also our Goal with Graal is to give advanced communication tools to be able to have fun playing but also make Online friends. How many other online game give advanced communication tools and tools to create Online world?

I agree that we are not the best company for advertising or even pricing/marketing strategy but we are still there after 7 years, how many Online games are still there after 7 years? Most Online games are closing after a few years and players have no other choice than to switch from game to game, that’s not the best way to make a community neither long time friends.

Most players play an average of 60 hours a month, Graal is less than 5$ a month for Gold and 2$ a month for VIP, and you say it's to expensive? Where can you spend that much time for this amount?

In France for $2 you can get only a coffee or a Bus ticket.