Zone....

[Programmer]

Originally Posted by Knightmare1

When v5 came out, with the trial restrictions and observer mode all the trials started leaving. Zone was 75% trials. The people with gold had less people to kill, so they started leaving. Ta-dah!

This is one of the many reasons that Zone died:

• Lack of reasonable updates
• Cash shop
• Unfair trial restrictions
• Less trials for subscribers to kill
• Incompetent managers
• and ultimately, a certain greedy Stefan.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Programmer

This is one of the many reasons that Zone died:

• Lack of reasonable updates
• Cash shop
• Unfair trial restrictions
• Less trials for subscribers to kill
• Incompetent managers
• and ultimately, a certain greedy Stefan.

To be honest, the cash shop was implemented after Zone had already died. It was during Contiga's mini-revival (if you could call it that) that we got that, and by then a lot of people had left. Anyone with half a brain probably left asap (not so many, being Zone and all) because of the imbalance it created, but it wasn't the cause of death.

Tougher restrictions on trials, change of P2P model(remember that back then, before v5, the subscription system was different), no incentive to actually pay for Zone, and lack of attention towards the development of the server led to its demise. Zone isn't coming back, not on normal Graal anyway.