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Originally Posted by Tigairius
I think it is, very much so. You guys throw your weight around on the forums like you know what's best but when it comes to crunch time where are your solutions to the problems?
You, as a player, a staff member, (a developer?), should definitely have say in the future of Graal. In fact, I think you would be upset if you didn't.
If you're willing to to find all of the faults, certainly you could attempt find some solutions.
If you just point out all of the negative things but make no attempt to contribute you just look like a complainer.
You are just trying to rally up the people on the forums to perpetuate the argument in the negative direction. Where is the positive?
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Don't make me out to be some compulsive disagreeing nitpicker, because if my posts didn't have any substance to them then no one would give a crap. What you said was completely misrepresenting the demographics that are being targeted for the game, and because of this your justification in the current pricing strategy didn't really work in the reality. Just because I might be a player, developer, or staff member doesn't mean that what I say is going to change anything. I always suggest possible fixes to everything that I post "negatively" about, being directly or indirectly, but even though most of what I post is seemingly common sense to people, nothing ever happens.
I'm not trying to rally up any kind of player distaste or "throwing my weight" at anything, I'm just simply showing you how you are incorrect, and in being incorrect on something as simple as demographics, you eventually cause more problems. I don't really feel that I need to keep repeating the obvious in order for people to understand that the problems that the Graal servers have are beyond fixing at our level. Sure the developers could make the best server ever, but with a limited global playercount it's just a case of stealing players from other servers, players we already had. The problems that are being outlined are not going to be fixed by making the server Classic, because the only players that it could possibly be attracting that it didn't before would be the non-paying customers. Graal needs income in order to continue, so 'demoting' their Gold servers wouldn't exactly seem a favorable action.
The market for 2d online games is not as saturated as the market for 3d. As Graal Online is predominantly 2d, even though they've tried to venture into 3d multiple times, it places the product in a market that is still quite popular, a market that is a niche. I believe that
globally the servers need to be improved upon in nearly all areas including framework, structure and content. The last official server release was in 2002 and the servers themselves haven't really progressed beyond this point, with the exception of Zodiac of course. This is something that can be controlled on a developer level, but as most of the players on Graal don't really have the necessary skills nor training opportunities, it is proving to be a stagnation rather than a growth. Along with the lack of developers, the website, forums, and the client need to be adjusted to a more professional look. Like I said though, this has already been said multiple times and you probably already know this, so I don't know why you even asked.
02-09-2009, 09:30 PM
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