[Ethereal]

I'm pretty sure everyone misses the old graal days, around 15 servers with 100+ on each server. I used to play mithica, great server, we used to get around 200 people playing at peak times. What first attracted me to graal was that i knew a friend who played and since it was free i got hooked pretty quickly. Nowadays if i knew a friend who played it and i found out you had to pay for it, i probably wouldn't even consider it. Too be honest i haven't had any fun on graal whatsoever since pre-p2p days and it's only friends who play that actually make me go back and play it every once in a while..

I'm not too good with marketing stratagies but why not have graal free again for the whole of 2007, think of how many new people and old people will start playing, getting chain reactions going and suddenly you have players friends friends friends playing so then you've got around 3000 people playing and then bring back p2p in 2008 or sometime later. Most of those
new people are going to upgrade and suddenly you'll end up regaining the profits you missed out on in 2007 but have increased profits from then on.
No idea if that will work but just my 2cents.