[Tyhm]

Yes, ideally something CAN be both - just like ideally Pearl Harbor is both a war movie and a romance, instead of a bastardchild of the two that fails utterly at wooing either audience.
I see much the same problem with Graal - are we saying "We're better than WoW or FFXI, play Graal!"? Are we saying "We could really use your support, and we're a pretty good game with lots of potential"? I'm not seeing the essential message of Graal - and like it or not, if Graal's going to be advertising, SOMEONE's gotta know what that message is.
Maybe I'm dumb, maybe all these questions have really obvious answers that everyone else in the world's in agreement on. Maybe corruption was banished years ago and the only people who complain are madmen, maybe advertisement's clearly not a priority and playerworld development has always been an in-joke and there already is a Hubworld, and I just don't know it because I've been out of the loop since October of 2003. Maybe that's why I'm the only one who's asking these questions. Well, and Rufus too.

And I'm ever so sorry these Tyhm threads hurt your delicate sensibilities, but I feel a certain sense of responsibility where the future of Lifetime Classic is involved. I choose to address this by discussing plans on the forum, by way of breaking an insurmountable issue into its many facets and presenting them as I see them. Would I be guilty of spin-doctoring? Probably, but that's what a discussion's for. Am I spamming the forums? Debatable; I see it as a proper discussion when there are ten threads on ten different issues by the same person, and spam when all ten threads have the same person interrupting the flow of discussion to say "SHUT UP! STOP TRYING TO CHANGE THINGS! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, JOHN RAMBO?!?"
Clearly I am alone in this theory.