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Originally Posted by ffcmike
Yes, I've acknowledged that having a quest storyline (and it's not a forced one by the way) narrows the appeal, as this isn't of direct importance to most casual style players (there are exceptions, some do try the quests and end up liking them). This is not to say that it's a negative point of the server, especially as it is not impacting the ability to participate within competitive content, and to suggest that it is would be ignorant of the fact a lot of players have been connected to the community via questing.
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The majority of your casual players (that will constitute the majority of the playerbase in general) are not going to be competitive players. We've both already acknowledged that the quest-story structure (which yeah, it is kind of forced) narrows down its appeal against the casual players.
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Originally Posted by ffcmike
A handful of quests is little in comparison to the number that existed on Classic at the time, even if you knew what you were doing Classic's quests took several days to get through, in my case I remember it taking weeks, which was just not practical to get far with on a trial account.
So while it would be fair to say Delteria was affected, it wouldn't have been vulnerable to the same extent.
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Yeah but there was nothing stopping existing Classic players and players with Classic/Gold/VIP from continuing to play Classic/get through the questing phase. This didn't happen though. A large majority of Graal's playerbase, who were fully able to complete Classic's quests, opted for other servers (most which were still what we call "Classic" or rather "traditional" defaults). It's actually kind of funny we've brought this up because I remember some servers would get in trouble with the PWA by adding NPCs that would secretly save trial stats/progress. Oh the good times.
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Originally Posted by ffcmike
2000 was a lot more random, with no main storyline or provided direction, though you could say there was the objective of finding the 4 Graal's to open the golden gate.
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You know, I could have sworn I made it into the golden realm without completing all the quests. Perhaps the golden realm I'm referring to and the golden gate are two different things.