I'm not on an offence stance at all, but the player count has gone down alot over alot of silly reasons. This is all from the players point of view- me, and I am pretty involved with the community and I would probably know more than you guys with the community as I don't think i've seen globals on a server for more than an hour. I'm a pretty avid graal player, stacking 4k hours in all, 2.5k on Era, and 1.5k on UN
I remember when Era had -6- gangs, we now have 3/4 depending, with very little members each. Era used to top 200 players, as did UN. I believe with some motivation graal could be easily fixed.
-GRAAL ACCOUNTS
This has to be the silliest thing I have ever seen, what does this do for graal that makes it a pro instead of a con? It has prevented me from wanting to buy another account, my friends also. It masks everyones individuality and sitting there trying to remember Graal###### is so-and-so is not my cup of tea, this has to be one of the biggest flaws and has NO logic to it.
-FREE PLAYING TIME
Maybe on private servers, instead of that ghost mode you guys used to have; but why in gods name would you put this to people on classic servers? If you guys did this to me back in 03-04 I would easily move on to another game that did not have such obscure regulations. I mean, maybe after two hours you could have them wait an hour (not requiring online time) then play again, OR HAVE IT LIKE IT USED TO BE. Which you would loose all your playing time, all your items and anything you achieved. I don't see what was wrong with that, it let you taste it and crave it and then you needed to buy it. Trust me, getting the 13 hearts everytime on UN was not fun, nor was getting guns on era and being reset fun. So you got to play, but the next day you were new, this like made be buy an account and know what I was paying for unlike today. Do you seriously think many people will wait 5 minutes (you have to wait before you can start your first time cause it is glitched) then play for 5 minutes, wait again? That is quite annoying and I wouldn't even give this game a single shot. Graal doesn't have an amazing graphical view which is the first impression, graal thrives off of community and gameplay which you guys arn't handling to well to my perspective.
-CLASSIC LIFETIME
Where has this gone? Do you really think I am going to buy another account if it still isn't playable on regular servers after the time has run out? I really want to buy an account to dev on playerworld and TRY to make Graal better as a whole, but how is one trying to help restricted with all these ridiculous restrictions? I mean seriously, we should pick up a history book and see how imposing so many unneccesary rules has worked in the test of time (It sounds ridiculous, but graal in itself is like a little government)
-GRAAL FUNDS
Since he is making "more money" (I mean, he is limiting classic life time and making some buck huh?) Maintaining a server isnt that much, why doesn't he do some advertising? Seriously, a little banner on a website; that would attract more players i bet, a little bit more of anything would do. Graal has gone through times and has been pretty strong throughout most of it and it is pretty much going down the hole faster than it ever has. It almost seems he isn't working on improving graal that much anymore, [don't take this critical, as i stated in the very first sentense] but nothing is really happening and they are throwing globals on servers and it seems to hinder work. Era has always been fine without globals and stuff got done, two years since a promised reset and nothing has happened. Andy was a manager before and GOT STUFF DONE. He worked so hard to try to get manager again but it went to globals, then a bunch of the dev quit in one heap and they scrapped everything. Graal for the most part is to be player run, why do you think people like it so much as it is? Don't try to ruin the essence of this game.
-GRAAL GIFTING
Steam sorta does this, they'll give like two weeks out to everyone that has a registered account (basically pay to play) and they can give it to someone and they will recieve pay to play for the two weeks the person gives to them. No i'm not saying just add this and forget about the other points i labled (you should still remove all those restrictions, don't disregard anything before this section) and instead of the logging off and loosing all their stuff, they will keep it for the two weeks and at about a 3 day notice it will say "Your time is running out,you should purchase a full subscription to maintain all your items or if not you will return to trial" <- Keeping everything you do that day and (as i said before) their will be no time restrictions. Doing this gifting type thing (DONT BUY THIS WITH GELATS, THIS IS A TWO WEEK SUBSCRIPTION GIFT FROM GRAAL FOR YOU TO GIVE FOR PEOPLE TO TRY GRAAL, ALTHOUGHT THEY COULD ADD THIS OPTION FOR ANYTIME TO BUY WITH GELATS CHEAP AND STILL ABLE TO GIVE OUT) would really bring new players into graal and would have people buy accounts ect.
I think I am about done with my case, I know their is alot I havn't gone over, but I think this really hits the nail on the head. If we got 3000 players (The server supposively can support alot of players, not sure the exact ammount) I think we would have more people paying, which means more coin going to the big man, than having 300 people on graal and about 225 of them paying.
-Requill
Please feel free to add a response wether you agree or disagree, if I should remove or add some new points. |