The Limiting of Trial Accounts

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by raiden0899

Gerami, why do you care about the playercount so much? The players that leave because of Trial accounts switching to Guest accounts don't do anything to contribute to the Graal community. If they want to keep playing, they can pay too.

New Plyers = new money

that simple

Graal is a business, they need profits
guest mode will hurt the business, but it may also get people who are using trials to get a p2p account (doubtful, since they must still be using a trial for a reason)

[raiden0899]

Originally Posted by excaliber7388

Graal is a business, they need profits
guest mode will hurt the business, but it may also get people who are using trials to get a p2p account (doubtful, since they must still be using a trial for a reason)

Moved the second edit in my last post to a new post:

Originally Posted by raiden0899

EDIT 2:

I know it needs profits but what profit are they making from the players who use a trial account for a long period of time? None. This will increase profits. I think the only real reason players won't pay for an account is because they are greedy or too lazy to do something to raise money. They could easily sell some old games or something to raise extra money and buy an account.

People will still be able to try Graal before they pay for an account. The only difference is that they will eventually have to pay if they want to keep playing.

If a player can have a free account that lasts forever (Trial), they probably won't pay for an account.

There's no reason to keep arguing. Stefan has obviously already made his decision on the matter.

[cptmetal]

DUDE theres something called "Hosted/Gold/Private" servers no trials allowed thats one fo them ain reason i play if i meet a good trial whom is nice and is a good friend i update his account for him (so far like 15 trials got updated due to this lol) so leave teh trials alone!

[Nabru]

Originally Posted by cptmetal

DUDE theres something called "Hosted/Gold/Private" servers no trials allowed thats one fo them ain reason i play if i meet a good trial whom is nice and is a good friend i update his account for him (so far like 15 trials got updated due to this lol) so leave teh trials alone!

Not all of us want to buy a ****ing server when something can be done about it elsewhere.

[excaliber7388]

Originally Posted by Nabru

Not all of us want to buy a ****ing server when something can be done about it elsewhere.

then play on Dark Rival :P
anyway, you can't force someone to subscribe because they will get something better. I say offer a better tutorial in offline mode, it used to be pretty good, however the new one isn't so great. Also let them see the ways graal is unique. It can have servers like Zone, or classic and RP ones. Just make them learn how to play before playing. You could even make something that would save progress in offline mode (make a small game in the tutorial) this way, when they start playing, they realize there's something missing online, and they'll want to subscribe(the offline version would be useless after you beat the short game). Give them maybe 100hrs as a trial, this way they can get used to graal, and decide for themselves what they will do. I'm sure that if they play graal long enough, they'll subscribe. Maybe the offline tutorial could be manditory for all new trial accounts.