Lifetime Classic

[_Z3phyr_]

Originally Posted by maximus_asinus

What he said

/agree

I remember when I first got Graal as a trial -- I constantly played it. I saw that tutorial island and was like "oooooooooooooooooooooooooo". I used to actually draw on paper my Graal character and stuff (and I -hated-/-sucked at- drawing!)... I used to think up random things to do in my free time for my RP character in Valikorlia (that stuff is/was soo in-depth and cool because any player who had a dramatic capacity could do something and then say "hey I'm responsible for this!" without having to actually do any server dev work -- players could get respect by being a good RPer and not an Admin), too.

Man that was fun.





But back on topic here... I remember believing when I was a trial that Gold servers were the -really- cool/good ones (because Bomy Moon and Graal Kingdoms were definately cool with tons of stuff to do). Why not make/assist in selecting/making a new Gold server? Why not bring back the "Playerworld Inspection to go Classic" and add a "Playerworld Inspection to go Gold" methodology, which will hold the passing standards to a Cyberjoueur-like standard, and put the PWAs to work again? If I see PWAs playing an active role in determining the status of a playerworld (i.e. being Global Playerworld Administrators) in the game then I will have a reason to believe that they are powerful and deserve respect. That will create a player authority and something to start with.

[Spark910]

I don't understand why there has never really been any big advertising done for Graal, it would really get a lot of people on the game, and there are many cheap options and ideas/ways to get them there that I can think of.

In the past the websites lack of ease functionality was the excuse, but it still hasn't been updated it needs to be more simple and useful and then you can advertise for it.

If I was to be honest, Graals only world that is worth promoting would be Zone I think, and I can think of ways to do this easily (and some freely), and then people can stay or go onto other worlds from there.

[Darlene159]

Originally Posted by Spark910

If I was to be honest, Graals only world that is worth promoting would be Zone I think, and I can think of ways to do this easily (and some freely), and then people can stay or go onto other worlds from there.

That's a matter of opinon, I think.
Personally, I dislike Zone (maybe because I am female, don't know).
Graal needs to be advertised as a whole. All features of it should be advertised in order to draw in more people IMO.
Different people like different things.

[Spark910]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

That's a matter of opinon, I think.
Personally, I dislike Zone (maybe because I am female, don't know).
Graal needs to be advertised as a whole. All features of it should be advertised in order to draw in more people IMO.
Different people like different things.

Assuming they promote a gold server, then it's that or GK. GK would have too much competition, and while price and a few other features may be of attraction, people would probably question why they'd play that over a 3D version. It also takes too long to get used to (as all games do).

Zone is quick and easy and to the point. It's constant action and gameplay, and you could probably play it fairly happily as a trial account as saving your stats on Zone isn't that big of an issue - although they will eventually want more health and items.

I'd personally get a website up just for zone, list all weapons and features, stick a download link to it and then get websites to review it - those who review arcard style games. People would check it out, and then they would also perhaps stick around and pay for Zone, or pay for another server.

It's just that if you advertise any classic server it'll be hard as visually it isn't that impressive, and some are fairly similar (although there is a lot more custom looking servers now).

But advertising Zone will attract the young people Graal is most likely to appeal to, as (not to play on sterotypes too much) but young boys like their shooting games! And Zone is quite a fun little game to play. Zone is probably the best chance of getting a positive review, as I think Graal may get a bit of criticism just because it's such a different type of game (but of course the reviewers can also look at the other servers).

[jacob_bald6225]

I'm not going to pay for a game that refuses to do anything to help the situation on the server I play on. I feel ignored as a customer.

Originally Posted by Gerami

I'm not an expert or anything but you need to give people a reason to upgrade. I don't mean one addition and restrict it, I mean worthwhile gold server additions. Make a new 2D gold server, or something. It's been a while since Graal Online has made their own server. Zone is simply a revival of the old Zone made by Angel and them.

If there were a new offical, classic-esque server, I would upgrade to gold to play it.

[_Z3phyr_]

Originally Posted by Spark910

If I was to be honest, Graals only world that is worth promoting would be Zone I think, and I can think of ways to do this easily (and some freely), and then people can stay or go onto other worlds from there.

/agree 73.948723562356%

Zone is a new graphical theme to the game. Yes, it's a complete 180 from the original premise of the game, but its fun to play in its own way and it hasn't been around long enough to have oldbies say "oh lol I remember back when I was a noob and got my first gold subscription..." when they think about it yet... so everyone doesn't have -as much- to say about it.

However, so as to not throw advertising into a single style of the game -- I think that an advertising campaign would have to exemplify/include the classic, GK, era, and Zone styles of the game. (I add Era to the list because it has its own style and premise compared to the other three -- I was never too fond of the server but I still acknowledge its position in the game. I would add Valikorlia too but when you glance at it, its a classic style unless Clash manages to release his game after god knows how long its been)

(edit - Darlene beat me to the post... I think we're kinda on the same page with the idea of including all of the styles of the game in an advertising campaign -- maybe you could use the styles as examples of the game's customizability and opportunities for entertainment?)