God, you guys are complete idiots.
You wouldn't know because you don't PLAY the classic servers. Most of the players think that gold is crappy, they prefer the old tileset, and the old game in general, and they like their "home playerworld" so they stay there. I'm like that, the only reason I pay for a VIP account is because I don't mind paying, and I like having the forums access, and being able to go talk to people on gold, and see what it looks like once in a while. Like every couple weeks.

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Kaimetsu, I haven't been on the forums very long, and I already hate you. You haven't made one intelligent post yet.
People don't not buy graal because they are "cheap"..they buy it because they don't want to. And yes, there are the people, quite a few but not quite as many who can't afford it...well that's not because they're cheap, it's because they don't have the money, or a credit card, or something else. Plus, if you didn't notice, Graal isn't exactly trustworthy...have they ever set a date and made it? No. Never. Well, maybe as their 7th estimate, at least a year and a half after the first estimate....=/
Kaimetsu, it is completely ridiculous how you think the playerworlds could run themselves and would work fine without managers. Let's find out some of the problems...
-Players quit their staff positions genius. Maybe you think, oh the heads of each department would just hire new people. Hmm, don't you think there would be fights? That wouldn't really work very well...at all.
-There are events....events don't run themselves. And the events team position is the most unstable position ever, and it's close to being most important, after a while you can spar, talk, pk, and play events. It's a big thing. ETs always quit, fight, abuse power, etc.
-Nothing at all would be able to be held in check without managers. No major decisions would get made. Do you REALLY think the heads from the depts. would have meetings deciding what they want to do to improve things, etc? I doubt it. No, I don't doubt it, I'd bet my ****ing life on it. No server has ever had a team like that.
-There's a lot more **** but I just feel like posting, so I'm going to hurry up.
If what you're saying is that there needs to be no STAFF...well then I don't know..I think it's obvious why that wouldn't work. No events, no updates, no one to fix glitches and problems, no one to catch hackers, no one to hold events, etc, etc.
So, basically, the managers do a hell of a lot of work, and I'd say they bring in the vast majority of Stefan's money, because new classic players come in all the time from trial, and there are WAY more people who like and play the classic server (just check the playerlist) than the gold servers, which really suck anyway.
I completely agree with Moon Goddess on this one..as I have on most other things I've read on here. Haven't agreed with you on anything, and whoever has should be shot.
Oh, and asswipe, one more thing...NO ONE would ever become a ****ing manager for power....OKAY? Jesus christ. People manage servers for the reasons moon goddess gave..they like making something, seeing it expand, seeing people play it...it's pretty cool. Just shut the **** up already.
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Anyway, here's how I think it should work. The managers do a lot for Graal, and so do the playerworlds as a whole. Therefore, they should have to pay, until they reach a certain amount of people playing it...after you get a good number of people playing your server, you shouldn't have to pay anymore, because you make up for what it costs to run the server, or bring in revenue for Graal.