Veteran Players Opinion. Graal getting better or worse?
 

I want to hear from the older veteran players.what is your opinion on how Graal has changed from a whole? What things do you miss or what things you feel should've stayed the same? Do you feel Graal is improving or straying from a path that would've made it better?

Graal as a whole hasn't changed since 2011. The game isn't fun. The global staff are corrupt and don't really seem to care about the people making the game for them.

PC Graal is dead. It's been dead. It's going to stay dead. I'm not sure why it even exists at this point. Graal managements' done a pretty good job of snubbing out the servers with potential and their staff for talking too loudly.

As for the mobile versions of Graal, iClassic is the only playable server. It's much better than it was a few years ago. All of the other mobile servers can **** off and die.

The game is booty. The game shouldn't be looked at for it's development capabilities anymore. Everything except for iClassic and it's development server should be removed, and the game should revolve around that.

I'm with Skyzer on this one.

iEra has pretty much become the Frakenstein's monster of this entire franchise and Zone is pretty much gone at this point. iOS Delteria is a myth and Ol' West is, IDK even know WTF it is.

PC Graal died in the last couple months, honestly was kinda sad to see it go. IMO a lot of the PC Servers had a lot going for them but they never really gained any momentum.

So yeah. You know a franchise is doing well when just 1 of the 4 or 5 servers is doing ok.

I only briefly played any PC graal after UN had been deemed dead already, but for the while I played it I enjoyed myself.

I can speak to how I feel classic has progressed, which isn't much. I don't think the game has become any worse in itself since 2010-2011, but as you get older you have less fun playing the actual game and it becomes more about just talking to people you know. There's one interesting event that happens every 3 months in the game's current state but until (if) NGS is released, that's all that really exists to do that bears any semblance of competition.

Schedules, schedules, schedules

Having the guts to complete something, graal needs a motivation trainer or psychotherapist as supervisor

Slow and steadily sending positive stimuli to manipulate behavior (staff and players) towards a better perception in general that eventually leads away from a depressive state

This approach has only rarely been done in game design

To heal the soul without invoking negativity with stressful situations that still drain energy in the end
(being worn out after excessively playing something, while reallife may be draining aswell at the same time)

Can still maintain usual design patterns as neccessary transitional instrument.

I think it's a lot worse, but I also have to consider the fact that after 7 years of playtime a lot of my opinions are influenced by nostalgia and the closed mind to change.

I'm not a veteran player, but I will post my opinion on iClassic.

Pkng is worse than it was in previous years. Arrow cool downs, objects doing 0.5 damage, and my favorite pk area (now a safe zone) is now a noob infested dump.

Spar has been about the same thing. One generation rises, they get bored, and then they go inactive giving way for the next generation.


Everything else has improved imo. The little quests, holiday events, house changes, and all the stuff non-competitive players enjoy seem to be improving. Not to mention those new tiles/graphics they use in places like the castle. The whole map should slowly be changed to match the castle.

I cannot criticize iClassic at all though, they are doing a very professional job over there

Word.

iClassic just keeps improving, their Nexus events showcase the most professional and put together projects Graal has really developed as a whole. The other servers, sadly, don't get the same light or attention that they need to actually become successful. Although, iClassic's success is truthfully because of the executives; Xor, Coco, Dusty, Fp4. Don't get me wrong, without the GPs or GATs it'd be a lot emptier and scarier, but Xor, Coco, Fp4, and Dusty are doing the brunt of the work outside of hats and holiday updates.

Nexus could have been realized a little better visually, but it was very well done in terms of functionality and general user experience

I failed to mention these aspects but I agree with this. As far as cosmetics / nexus - type stuff and tilesets go, there have been many improvements.

Nobody fun plays anymore, everyones not even unique. The type of releases are great and I love them but they arent that exciting for me anymore. Theres always a complaint about something extremely stupid now a days, more cries about admins now a days, common hats now a days.
Its just meh.

Worse, mainly because I've grown up and realised it's bad.

My opinion is that it's a bit of a skewed concept to give an opinion on. How many games can you say you've played for as long as Graal(at least if you're asking veteran players)? 5+ years is a long time for a single game. After a while you're going to get burned out on what made the game fun before.The magic fades, but you still stick around for one reason or another. Maybe it's friends, maybe it's the investment(either time or money) but if you're still around it's for a reason. But just because you're around doesn't mean you have the same outlook. You might still be around but it's harder and harder to enjoy. Most of your friends are probably gone, maybe you start realizing that after 5 years it's still more or less the same, maybe it's the fact you started when you weren't even a teen and now you're graduating high school. Either way, it becomes harder and harder to have an objective perspective on the game. Something you once thought was the most amazing thing when you were still a noob probably seems dumb or boring now. Does that make the content worse or does it just mean you've matured?