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Originally Posted by MajinDragon

Staff professionalism and Content.

Though content IMO is the most pressing issue on Graal, - It is what ultimately retains users/customers - it is surely wishful thinking to ask for content without dealing with the underline reason for the lack of it; Staff professionalism. It's very difficult to imagine a talented developer consistently devoting most of his time into various projects with no real incentives. This ofcourse leads to very inconsistent levels of development periodically; where most of the development, if any, centres around holiday periods but is rarely/never followed up by anything more, this often leads to a focus on the short-term playercount or success of the seasonal event. It also leads to an obvious lack of developers or talented enough developers who move on to more inspiring projects.

While I've highlighted and elaborated on what I feel are the key issues, we need a solution. Incentives are the key, and the two that would work best in this situation is ownership (credit) and finance. Finance would be a more immediate incentive and solution to staff professionalism as staff would be required to meet performance standards to earn their pay. How this would be co-ordinated is another discussion. Ownership would be a better incentive IMO, but more difficult to pull off as it works out as a financial incentive in the long run.

I should mention that a Business Approach is also very important but not before the foundations are laid. There's no point spending money promoting a terrible product.

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Thank you Sherlock