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04-12-2012 07:51 AM |
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Posted by Mr.$imons
(Post 94369)
Take a look at some of the servers, the vast majority has player counts barely reaching the 100s, that sounds like its dead to me...
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Think of the game you are referring to.
GraalOnline is an obvious The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past rip-off with brutal trial restrictions and a ridiculous subscription price and policy. You have to use in-game currency called Gelat, which you buy with real-life currency, to buy a gold subscription that only lasts a month. So if you decide to buy stuff from the Gelat shop, you run out of Gelat faster and need to put spend even more money to refill your it to keep buying gold subscription. It's a miracle people even play this game
Roughly 60% of the population of the game is made up of people using lifetime Classic accounts bought five or more years ago, 35% of the population is people who buy Gelat for gold subscriptions, and the remaining 5% are trials.
The servers Zodiac and Era have the highest player counts on PC Graal at the moment. UN used to be at the numbers Zodiac and Era have, but lost almost all of its players to iClassic or the Facebook server because of the accessibility of the iPhone (more players) and similar game-play focuses (PvP, materialism, guilds, and socializing).
But the game is not dead. Even with the terrible restrictions and obstacles there are servers that maintain decent player counts, given the circumstances. Role-playing servers like Zodiac, Graal Kingdoms, and, more literally, Valikorlia are starting to gain more players.
PC Graal is simply less appealing to players when compared to the high accessibility and player count of Facebook and the iPhone servers. That is, until Classic is released. ;)
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