Lifetime Classic - Page 16

Tyhm · #1 10-11-2006, 05:59 AM

Content to keep new players around long enough that they'll upgrade. I agree.

Devil · #2 10-11-2006, 06:25 AM

Where exactly has Graal advertised other than some topsites websites.

konidias · #3 10-11-2006, 06:28 AM

Graal isn't exactly polished enough to advertise yet... I mean the website hasn't been updated in ages.

Devil · #4 10-11-2006, 06:34 AM

And that's my point, what do you mean yet? HOW MUCH longer must Graal not be advertised for lol... it's been years now.

konidias · #5 10-11-2006, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Devil

And that's my point, what do you mean yet? HOW MUCH longer must Graal not be advertised for lol... it's been years now.

I could probably have Graal ready for advertising in less than a month... I really don't know what's holding them up. I'd love to have control over the marketing of Graal and attracting players. (as I'm sure many others would also) It's got huge potential but nobody is actively doing anything to bring in new people or attract anyone.

Tyhm · #6 10-11-2006, 06:48 AM

so let's polish and post. What should the priorities be prior to posting the ads? Website, content, frontends? How thoroughly should we update the site? How much content should we make, in what direction, and by whom? Is skinnable clients enough, or should Graal give/host each PW their own homepage?

konidias · #7 10-11-2006, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Tyhm

so let's polish and post. What should the priorities be prior to posting the ads? Website, content, frontends? How thoroughly should we update the site? How much content should we make, in what direction, and by whom? Is skinnable clients enough, or should Graal give/host each PW their own homepage?

Fixing up the website. Getting rid of VIP and making the upgrade page simpler + fixing some info on that page in particular. Getting active contests and things going on the website so newcomers see lots of activity. A written and video tutorial of how to get started with: getting an account and playing the game, developing in the game, starting your own playerworld.

There needs to be a new gold server planned and a team organized and starting work on it. Possibly make some of the higher quality under development playerworld plan to go Gold instead of Classic. As for the all new gold server... updates should be made on the site frequently when new things are made for it. (like during it's development)

I think it would be much better if the news was once again being posted actively and by different servers. (with someone approving the content of the news posts)

Once that is all set, I think a more inviting/professional login screen and lobby for the game would be great.

It would also be nice to be able to access flags from a graal server and display that data on websites. (I think someone did this I'm not sure how though? Maybe make an example of this if it's already possible?) That way people could have forum sigs that showed their stats for a certain server... or like what their player currently looked like or who knows what... (though I think that would consume more bandwidth)

There should be a page on the website that compiles EVERYTHING a Gold account has to offer including listing the current classic and gold servers with brief descriptions for each.

It's a start...

Spark910 · #8 10-11-2006, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by konidias

There should be a page on the website that compiles EVERYTHING a Gold account has to offer including listing the current classic and gold servers with brief descriptions for each.

It's a start...

A 'quicksite' like Fairyland has:
http://www.fairyland-europe.com/

but for Graal! There was one made by Amon-Ra but Stephane didn't like it so much, and perhaps it was a bit graphical anyway and not that fitting. But such a website would be great for new players who don't need to see all the news and other links just yet (but they should also be somewhere, but less obvious).

Damix2 · #9 10-11-2006, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Spark910

A 'quicksite' like Fairyland has:
http://www.fairyland-europe.com/

but for Graal! There was one made by Amon-Ra but Stephane didn't like it so much, and perhaps it was a bit graphical anyway and not that fitting. But such a website would be great for new players who don't need to see all the news and other links just yet (but they should also be somewhere, but less obvious).

What about your 'new' graal site?

Googi · #10 10-11-2006, 07:00 AM

Graal is being advertised on Google ads.

Devil · #11 10-11-2006, 07:03 AM

Yeah that's good if that happened, but think about it, neither of them know how to market Graal in other countries.. they need to do something about that first, and find some other people.

Devil · #12 10-11-2006, 07:40 AM

I really would like to see more gold servers from other players, personally I've never played Zone, I logged on and had no interest whatsoever, and I also do not like GK.. another no interest server for me personally. A bigger range of gold servers would definately make me upgrade to Gold again.

smirt362 · #13 10-11-2006, 07:52 AM

I dont like the graphical style of either of the gold servers...I've even played both for a couple of days and I didnt think it was anything special :/

Raelyn · #14 10-11-2006, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by smirt362

I dont like the graphical style of either of the gold servers...I've even played both for a couple of days and I didnt think it was anything special :/

I like GK because I played NetHack and Crossfire for years before I played graal, and even though I don't like the idea of Stefan stealing his design for GK from another (open source) MMORPG, I do appreciate the similarity in gameplay, and I enjoy playing there.

I'll still pwn you all with my level 112 Gnome Devotee on crossfire.metalforge.

Ixalovh for the win.

Devil · #15 10-11-2006, 10:19 AM

That's exactly my point, nothing AT ALL appeals to me, I'm not saying they are crap.. but you have to give something to paying customers who want to play an enjoyable server.