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Originally Posted by Matt
I'm glad someone agrees.
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it's the same story on alot of servers, you get the:
"delete the npc server, bring back the old levels and scripts, delete all the new quests, give everyone max hearts, lvl 3 sword/shield and let people pk and spar all they want and your server will be a success"
but naturally, if it were that easy every server would be a success.
it's about targetting specific crowds and bringing them in and keeping them in.
for example, quests: not everyone likes questing, but to remove all quests would limit people looking for a gameplay experience, hell some people don't think sparring/pking is all that important. (yes, i know, we should pk them off the game!) while many more think that graal is just a chat room.
it's really about keeping an open market, quests bring in players, that brings in pkers and more players. now you can sustain, both a questing, chatting, and pking type of player. a community can sustain a server a long time when there's nothing else to do. (see: Unholy Nation, iPhone servers)
graal really doesn't need to be a pick and forsake all others format.
a game should always realize how important it is to bring in new players, and a pure pking server would infact alienate new players who would most likely get slaughtered the second they step out the door (Zodiac, Era)
what most people forget about the old levels and scripts is they failed for a reason, you don't move forward by stepping back. you move forward with innovation and creativity. not to mention there are plenty of other traditional servers. (classic clones)