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Originally posted by Sigla
The ratio of p2p players to free players has got to be around 1:50. Not many of the free players would pay. Many of them do not have credit cards, and do not have parents who would be willing to use theirs. Therefore, wheter they'd like to or not, accounts would unavailable to them. Therefore the community of players - which consists of far more than ever even LOOK at the forumz - would cease growth almost instantly. If I had never played Graal before, and I saw that I had to pay before I could even try it, I never would have.
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The reason people don't upgrade as often, is because their favorite servers (playerworlds) are free, so they don't need to. If they were P2P more would subscribe. Look at playerworlds like N-Pulse, it usually has about as many players as classic, and there are several other large PWs. More people play on the PWs than on classic.
Also, Graal is very inexpensive. How do you know they can't get an account? Nobody will know until the playerworlds all go P2P. Doesn't graal 2001 already have 20,000 pay-to-play accounts? Think about it... twenty-thousand upgraded accounts in less than a year, and graal is not a very well known game, it has virtually no advertising, it's all on word of mouth and people stumbling upon it from sites like mpogd.com
it is just my theory, I'm just saying, if I had the choice, all Playerworlds would be P2P
And I have a feeling, that one of these days, it might be like that.
10-25-2001, 08:58 AM
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