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Originally Posted by Unkownsoldier
Actually they make you pay them so they can get a good server and then they make other people pay to play that server. So the only really expense they have it keeping the game up and running and the website. Other than that besides developing new versions and some content everyone else makes things for them and they get payed for using it with their name for credit.
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That's a very uninformed and hostile assumption, likely the result of poor representation on the part of Graal Online.
Graal Online is a game engine. You pay to have access to the development tools and facilities needed to host your content on a broad level. So when you make a server you're paying for the hosting space, access to the game engine, and making your content public in the Graal Online community.
Additionally, payments for access to the game allows the administration to create high quality officially supported content like Graal Kingdoms (this is less the case recently than it was historically) and Zone.
You're not forced to develop when you subscribe your account - if you don't want to develop you can always enjoy the development efforts of other groups and players.
This sort of poorly considered opinion is probably not helped by the lack official content on a broad scale, especially as of recent. Graal Online isn't a massively successful business, but it's making a profit (no need to worry about it disappearing in the immediate future). You sort of derail the conversation at hand with these vitriol statements. The greater subject is players working together across all servers to improve the quality of their content and uniformly introduce tools to help standardize their help and instructional content. Once we develop the community and game infrastructure to meet certain (currently undecided) long term goals we can more seriously consider advertisement... either officially or player supported.
There's nothing wrong with being a healthy community and being a healthy community member is something to be proud of.