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Originally Posted by Stephen
It may be important to refer to my very brief blog entry on the subject, " Playersworlds & Rented Servers".
My main questions becomes:
Can improved developer longevity (paying period), improved development quality, and higher playerworld player count make more money than rented servers which dilute the development pool? |
The thing about the current system is that its not new player friendly. If they took away the accounts with classic servers free for life so many people would have quit... We are really the people who are keeping graal alive. Some untold heros too who dont come on forums. You have no money if you have no community... Graal IS slowly dying beacause there are so many other games ou there that are free....
Want a WOW feeling game but free? check out Runes of Magic, its free for life uses a shop and is only getting bigger.
Evony is free for life and has a shop that lets you buy items to speed stuff up if you dont have time. Its making a lot of money... they both are... You see evony adds everywhere now... EVERYWHERE some are half porn.
anyways, If graal was free more people would obviously mean more development. More players joining learning the art of dev. I figure at the start of the switch dev wont go up that much since its hard to learn. However the The numbers would probably go up 10x and instead of losing players everyyear and increasing prices... you only gain more and more players if its FREE. The main aspect of graal right now is not the lack of servers... its the lack of players. Focus on making the people happy and the rest will come. As for the quality of the development that depends on the individual. Graal is more of a big chat chill spot then about dev but of course with more players naturally more people will learn in time...
10-20x more players + cash shops for people who have jobs for example... they spend their hours at work not on graal mining.
THe computer has been around a long time and IS the main form of gaming... there are so many people out there in the internet on their computers compared to iphones who is hitting about 1k players.
I KNOW that if they switch to free and offer ingame items for real cash for people who acutally work and dont have time to grind for exp. Kids who beg their parents as well... since if its cheap prices people obviously will buy it more...
100$ for a year of graal gold?.... i Pay 60$ ish for xbox live ...