but obs mode does have its plus side:
if someones hacking, you can watch them hack.

What does this matter? There are few hackers compared to trials who could potentially be members.

..its fun

At least in ghost mode you could walk around... observer mode just kind of sticks you there. It especially sucks if you're locked into observer mode in some secluded area.

I prefer that. I don't want people watching me talk to some staff when I don't want them to.

On Utopia, I've made a level that you get warped into when you go on observer mode.

Ghost mode showed when there were ghosts in the level, so you could watch what you talked about. But really, it's retarded... observer mode just doesn't let you observe anything... ghost mode let you look around and stuff. Not that I'm saying either are good, they're both retarded.

if its called "observer mode" then it obviously lets you observe .

Yays... observing an empty room!

youre still observing !
but i do agree with you

personally i really wont buy a subcription to a game that i dont know enough or dont know what i can get exactly if i buy it. this is why i doubt alot i'll buy a pleyerworlds subscription...each time i go to Era i find sombody nice to help me out like...getting guns or idk... and suddenly i get observermode and the person that was helping me gets mad and leaves (-.-) preety annoying, thats why i havent got many friends on those servers... by the other hand, there is no observer mode on zone, thats why i have fun playing and i even bought a subscription! i even became Staff!!

i know there needs to be something pushing pleyers to buy the subscription but the observer mode can be quite annoying and unpleasant to new pleyers...i dont even want to think about their reactions xD.

though i agree that GK or another server should have some big cool updates and be SO POPULAR that viral marketing get many more graal pleyers.

What was the reason stated for implementing observer mode in the first place? I don't understand how it could benefit anyone. Honestly, who IS benefited from this? Players are not, staff/scripters are not, playerworld managers are not, hell not even stefan or unixmad benefit. So really, who is this helping again?

If the number of new players are low, then you broaden their gameplay options, not hinder it with even more annoying limitations.

Well, it lets them play right away from the client, instead of registering an account just to play as a trial/observer..

if u want them to like upgrade why not make it so like you get idk 3 weeks of p2p when u first make a new account and after the account runs out if you wanan keep playin then you have to pay w.e ammount it costs? idk just a suggestion lol

It would be abused.

I'd rather see certain days available for players to play for free on like it used to be. Plus maybe having an online time limit. 25-30 hours or so for Gold worlds. It would allow the players to get hooked even more rather than randomly being booted into observer mode.

Exactly, although the old trial (play as long as you want, but you dont save) was much better than this observer crap. Playing for 5 minutes and then going into observer mode, then repeating over and over again doesn't make someone want to buy it as much as it just pisses the player off and angers them to the point where they don't play anymore. !pissed!