[Kamaeru]

The naysayers seem to all get one detail wrong.

Graal2001 was popular up until the very last second that it was replaced with Graal2002. The buildup for Graal2002 was so great that Graal2001 became more or less a 'teaser version' or even an advertisement for Graal2002 (Kingdoms) for some people in their minds.

There was never any absence of effort that drew people away from Graal2001. People like it every time it is re-released. It has the phenomenal ability to draw many, many players (in the same way that iPhone Classic has) from the get-go of a release, while many servers on Graal struggle with getting ten players.

Fact: on the last release of Graal2001, under Lance, the server actually had about 35-50 players per day still playing up until the day Lance left the project. People were still playing the server whenever it was taken down. That amount of players would be considered outstanding on any Graal server today, and that was only about three or so years ago. Ha!

Other Fact: That version of Graal2001 still exists someplace. It shouldn't even take much to get it up and running, as it is a work in progress with a lot of previous progress knocked out.