New Trial System

[Raeiphon]

Originally Posted by alexandralove

The whole point of Graal is that it's a very small community, where you can make sure friends and you know you'll keep them for a long time, because there are not 350,000 other people playing and trying to look like anyone else.

No.

Friendship is not the point of Graal.

I did not join and pay for Graal with the anticipation of making new friends. I joined and paid for Graal so I could experience the features I was being denied in the trial.

With the community in the state it is, I'd asked to be paid to stay rather than pay to stay. The lead developers are incompetent at any form of marketing strategy, completely incapable of listening to customers about what they want, and attempt to mask all this over with various 'competitions' that imply that CJ is infact financially well enough off to offer such promotions.

This game is utterly doomed to fail if several things do not happen:

* The current trial system needs to be revised.
* The current payment system needs to be revised.
* Development and costs thereof need to be reassesed and expanded (the tools, not the cost)
* The game needs to be advertised. HEAVILY.
* Global guidelines for server operation and moderation need to be set and enforced by global staff
* Strict quality control and regular staff monitoring needs to be set and enforced by global staff
* The entire 'multiplayer-only' facet of many servers needs to be eradicated and replaced with a system that allows for proper play with or without a community present

If none of these happen, Graal will die. At the current rate of depletion, I can only see maybe three or four years left in the project. Something needs to be done.