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Originally Posted by Crono

I honestly can't believe you still view it at that incredibly unrealistic angle. If you increase the amount of people logging on through computers you're increasing the total playerpool and will inevitably increase the playercount of other servers, even by a minimal amount.

Once again you're only looking at it in one direction. You have to get the amount of visitors via migration from mobile servers, and factor in the playercount PC servers would lose up-front, as well as the effect of being the 3rd/4th/5th/6th choice tried server as a result of playercount based list order.
Nobody can really be sure one way or the other, it is wrong to make such a definitive assumption.

A prosperous PC Graal however would not have negative consequences to the playercount of the iPhone servers, while a more inciting development platform without the current bottlenecking could have positive consequences for the iPhone servers.

Originally Posted by Crono

There aren't complaints about it outside of sparring and strafing is such a minimal effect in those fields that it isn't important.

When I first mentioned strafing I didn't mean it as the single one and only technical advantage PC users have, I'm surprised such a big argument is being made regarding that alone. Blink is also an important aspect of sparring, plus frame rate would be important in crowded locations such as guild forts.

[Hiro]

Originally Posted by Rufus

So Prado is strafing it's not actually doing anything for him as he's hit three times in a row, yet you believe that it is imperative to higher sparring?

He didn't use it very well, and Squirt is better than him. Squirt strafes a bit in that spar as well, want me to find you a specific instance for him to?

Originally Posted by Rufus

I am not contesting that strafing is or isn't an advantage in sparring, but I do not believe that it is tantamount to a 'higher sparring level'. As Crono said, strafing is a technical advantage but you don't need it to win against someone of equal skill. Decent iPhone sparrers can beat experienced PC sparrers and they do not have the ability to strafe.

But it is. Sure they can compete, but they won't be high tier. They won't have access to the techniques which strafing allows, and if someone good takes advantage of that, they will be able to win any series against them.

You don't have to believe me. You and Crono clearly don't, and that's fine. There is a lot more to sparring than just strafing, but most of the high tier sparrers use it for a reason.

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Good to see people haven't forgotten about the competitive side of Graal. Sick of people saying "It's a chat room"