You say you want your Guild Wars and stuff back. You also say that it doesn't need an NPC server. Then how the hell do you expect to have guild wars?
I can see your marketing view on Graal with Classic being free. You're right, new players could think "HMM, This is cool I guess Kingdoms would be better!" *goes and pays for sub*. But then people might not, and GO.com might lose money because existing paying members may find Classic more exciting than what they're already paying for. Like I've read from many other people and what you've also stated also, you joined because of the simplicity. In some ways yeah, I did join because of that point. I mainly joined though because the game seemed pretty interesting an fun, and I wanted to join into that fun.
I can vaguely agree on what you generally acclaimed on how pointless it was to have the creation of Graal3D. It was a step taken too soon considering the playerbase was still limited upon the release of the new server/game. Although like a majority of the other currently released servers, it was a project. The whole game IS a project from what I can sustain. Consider the fact that development tools are released publicly so then people can edit the game and create game servers themself! I consider that to have been quite a smart move from GO.com, lets the players do all the dirty work for them.
Though if you want to make comparisons to such well known games as WoW, that game is already at its final stage. The only thing updated on the game is patches, quests and etc. I'd know because I play the european version of it.
I'm 15 now and i've been playing since I was 12/3 and I guess I can say im a dedicated player, and I think thats all Graal is going to get at this stage. Dedicated players! Not the odd general player which comes on time to time for the excuse of amusement.
I don't understand however how Thallen considers your post to be "resourceful", it's more of a question on a larger scale. Though it reminds me of the attempted revolution of Unholy Nation. Which failed; see the link?
Fact is, I do believe that Stefan doesn't care what people think, as long as people are paying GO.com for the game service and he has a roof on his head for his ideas and work. That's all that he will care about.
And nice staff on servers? You're in a fantasy, all you're going to get is distressed hormonal teenagers as your favourite server's staff. Which I must admit is slightly hipocritical for me to say but i'm not staff on any server
But anyway, that is my view I would write more but im at school and extremely lazy.
Luc.