Email to Stefan

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What's funny is players wan't servers with more players on them. This is proven. Free to play accomplishes this, lifetime classic accomplishes this, and trial restrictions without obs mode accomplish this.

Graal on the iPhone currently has 2 flavors. You can download a free app, or you can buy the "+" app. I think something similar to this should be in place for pc. I mean put OBS mode on the free iPhone app and see if it doesn't ruin it?

The focus for revenue on the PC should shift focus from account subscription, to more of an additional benefit. Lifetime subscription to a game might not be a bad idea.

Reasonable tradeoff's to remove OBS mode. Allow players to play freely, or pay for a lifetime subscription. Charge for gold and allow only gold accounts to use guilds, offer some sort of cap to encourage upgrading (monthly). Right now you can't expect people to upgrade to play a game they are not sure they want to play even, and the current 4 hour free play isnt enough time to experience all of the servers for any reasonable time. A player that goes and explores era may be tempted to purchase a subscription but when his time runs out he can't even play Classic, Zodiac, etc..

Back when I started playing you paid for lifetime (playerworlds) and then they pushed Gold Servers. Right now the current server listing makes no sence because your account is limited equally on both playerworlds and gold servers (unless your lifetime classic).

The future of Graal depends on the adaptation to the players, both new and old.