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Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu
I would hope that there are a lot more players than developers, otherwise the whole development community wouldn't be doing its job... It doesn't change the fact that GraalOnline is a development platform, though. The whole goal for developers is to create a game that people like, using the tools we've been given to create that game.
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yes but it isn't enough to say that "graal's now a development platform" as a way to get out of making content. the complaining about the updates for the tools and such are just an example of graal trying to transition over to something it never exactly was - we didn't always think of graal in these terms, and i'd go as far to say that we shouldn't think of it as such. we are losing players, so how exactly is the development community doing it's job? also, there will always be more players than developers in the first place - it isn't an indication of a community doing well when there are more players, that should be a given fact - the indication is how many new players are coming in, which has been on the decline ever since graal started focusing more on development and other projects instead of graal itself, and relying heavily on the small group of developers to provide everything
i realize that as staff and a developer you feel inclined to defend the position of power that developers have been given in graal, since they are now the main focus of CJ in terms of updates and support. but i don't see how this means that players themselves should stop being supported. why support the minority of pessimistic idealists when there could be a lot done for the majority of dedicated players? graal could still be treated as a development platform while still supporting content and updates for the players themselves, and the argument that "client updates are for players" is plain bull****, especially since that's all they're receiving, and especially since this isn't how things were done for a long time and the changing focus has obviously hurt the community of graal