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Originally Posted by The Evil Within
Let's put Hypothetica back as Delteria.
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Could we not? I deviated from the discussion of whether or not Delteria sucks because it's utterly irrelevant to the discussion of whether or not servers should advertise for themselves verses trying to steal each others' players.
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Originally Posted by The Evil Within
due to old players returning and new players from other servers coming out to check what is new just from word of mouth.
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See above - this is not a GOOD thing, Delteria stealing UN and Maloria and Classic and Hypothetica's players. Before: Graal has 100 players evenly distributed. After: Graal has 100 players, and 70 of them are on Delteria. Not a win. It's rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
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Originally Posted by The Evil Within
Staff and players have already spent somewhere around $180 in the passed year and a half in total to just host the Dev server of Delteria, there are other servers who are spending the same amount of cash for their Dev servers, I highly doubt that after 2 years of shelling out money just to get the server done that anybody is going to want to pay money to try and get new players to come and give more money to cyberjours unless their server is a total wash out with the current Graal community, which usually happens for a reason.
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That's rather a seperate issue, but nonetheless a solid one: Why the hell does Graal require each developer to have an upgraded account? I'd see that abolished first and foremost. It's money better spent drawing traffic.
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Originally Posted by The Evil Within
I dunno why I'm arguing against this idea, like I said there is really no downside to it, I just don't really see any of the servers utilizing the option to promote themselves.
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In retrospect I think I have overlooked a key element to this: Graal would have to actually get on that whole "And the server gets 10% of each upgrade originating from their site" theory. If 100 Graalians go to GraalOnline.com and upgrade, good job Unixmad and Stefan, money for the servers, money for paying off old debts, money for developing G3D. If 10 Graalians go to Hypothetica.Graal.Net and upgrade, good job Billy, that's $20 for you - put it towards advertising, or upkeep, or hire that goth kid in your art class to design the new vampire-mech graphics, or whatever. I daresay that would encourage people to bring in the newbies.