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Originally Posted by Tyhm
I think that's the whole problem right there - Graal shares a small pool of players, and everyone competes over the Graalians. Graal really needs to release these customizable frontends, so Delteria can release a Delteria client (which is just a customized Graal) on the Delteria website (which is just a template hosted from graal.net) and start bringing in Delterians (which are just newbies who haven't realized their Delteria account works on all these other servers yet, and for the same price)...then maybe we'll see servers that stand alone, servers that are worth upgrading for "Just for Zone" instead of "Well, I DO get access to all 10 servers for this price..."
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That could potentially be a great idea, however, I don't think it would do all too well. Cyberjours barely pays for advertisement for themselves, this would basically have them asking classic servers to pay for their own advertisement. Just putting up a download link on the Delteria website wouldn't help too much, of coarse they have the most active forums of any Graal server, but that's because of players from the passed, and some players from other servers meaning the only people who would see the link on the Delteria website are people who already know about Graal. Not to mention the fact that it could potentially disuade certain players from playing Graal at all, especially using Delteria as an example.
Let's say Delteria payed gamefaq's for advertising space and a bunch of people downloaded the "Delteria Client." I dunno if you've logged on to Delteria lately, but unless you already know what Graal is, it has nothing to offer right now. It's purely a spar/pk server, players log on and start with 10 hearts and a level 2 sword with no quests to do (although I think quests may be reinstated on the server sometime soon, with the possible addition of some new quests for a level 3 sword and an extra heart). This is also ontop of the fact that it averages a playercount of 0 - 10 so there's not even anybody to talk to. If I had never played Graal before and was introduced to the game with Delteria I would probably never play the game again.
However for servers such as Zodiac, Unholy Nation, and Era this idea would be amazing to attract new players, however I doubt they'd be as motivated as Delterians to pay for their own advertisement. I know that there are people on Delteria (myself being one of them) that would shell out a few bucks and pool in with other player/staff to advertise to try and raise the playercount, hell the Dev server for Delteria is hosted by players not management, but there's no need for the servers with better content to do so because they already have a playercount.
I think it would be a good idea for Cyberjours to pay a few bucks to get a banner put somewhere on gamefaq's, especially with the release of the new Zelda game there's gonna be a lot of Zelda fans surfing the gaming sites in the coming months. I would also like to see links from the graalonline website to individual server sites, these things would help the playercount of all servers, and although Cyberjours may claim that they "can't afford advertisement" I really think that they'd pull in more money from new accounts than they would be spending on a few months of advertisement. Even if they only got 20 new p2p subscribers, that's $600 which is more than enough to pay for a couple of months of advertising space, and that's if Graal is still only $30 for an account.
11-28-2006, 01:27 AM
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