Very important announcement

[GrowlZP2P]

Originally posted by Shorty2Dope

You pay 15 bucks to play the game and keep your data.

Yeah, I got that.

If your gonna whine and be a freeloader and not pay, you lose your data and play trial mode.

And I got that too.

They are giving everyone a 2 month warning and time to upgrade to p2p or upgrade to the $15 lifetime deal.

And guess what? I got this too!

Many new things will be added including a new version. They most likely have staff there already working on this stuff.

And voice conferencing, your own space on the server, skins, yadda, etcetera.

In principle I agree with these ideas... Graal needs improvements, and if it needs more money to get 'em, then that's fine by me.

But hold on one second!

(Here is a long and probably provocative section. If you don't agree with it then that's okay; I don't make you accept my point of view.)

If Graal is switching its price policy, I'm assuming the old plan was not successful. And if introducing a system whereby you can't play most of the time was unpopular, then why do you think that might be? Not extreme enough? Personally, I think it was too extreme! Think about this for a second. Why might you not have upgraded? Because you resented there being more restrictions, instead of more features, to provide an incentive to pay for a game which up until then you could play free? When ghosting was announced there was literal outrage among free players. Now they've got used to it and it turned out to be not bad. But having everything you've done wiped at regular intervals? Don't you think this might get an even worse reaction?

(Provocative-ness ends.)

Note I assume the old plan was unsuccessful. If it was actually functional then I apologize. But, as the old saying goes, "If it ain't broke - don't fix it.".

Don't get me wrong, I like Graal, and personally will (probably) fork out the $15. (If you're wondering, this account was upgraded with a fake CC. No, I did not know this at the time. I believed I was getting a legitimate subscription to a fun game. The first I heard of it was when I woke up one Sunday, went down to play Graal and found my account was disabled.) But on behalf of those who won't, I don't believe they should be forced to.