it was like nothing i ever played before
(i wasnt really exposed to online databases and live chats with people across the world)  

I liked the sense of community and the freedom with what you could do in-game. Back on PC Graal I loved roleplaying on the Classic server and Valikorlia, as well as making friends and ****. (Unholy Nation was good for that since it used to be the most popular server).

That and it was basically a Zelda Online. (fun fact: when Graal first came out it was called Zelda Online.)  

I liked the graphics. When I got a musketeer hat, I was hooked.  

I liked shooting things, and the sound of yourself swimming in water gave me extreme nostalgia attacks for some weird reason.  

Posted by Shotgunz=bawss

I liked shooting things, and the sound of yourself swimming in water gave me extreme nostalgia attacks for some weird reason.

Um, consult a doctor.  

Posted by Jerln

I liked the graphics. When I got a musketeer hat, I was hooked.

it's all about the hats  

Well, apart from having played PC graal, when I got iClassic I got involved with a clan called -=GøD=- which let me meet tons of people. This was WAY before guilds were released, and we were one of the top 3 clans. We made our "base" at the old SNC building that no longer exists. From then I took over the clan/guild and it kept me playing for years.  

I stayed because simple-z promised me noods.  

Posted by GOAT

I stayed because simple-z promised me noods.

Lmao.  

I found iClassic back in 2010 and I've played inconsistently for the last three years. The guilds I joined and the people I met kept me playing for large amounts of time but I've always ended up taking long breaks. Hopefully I can return again soon to try some new guilds and meet some more new people.  

I seems almost similar to GTA Chinatown.  

when i first got it and downloaded it, i was like wtf? i was walking around doing the tutorial and i had noticed others that looked just like me doing the same exact thing. I was so confused because I wasn't familiar with these kinds of games, and I had no clue that they were real people at first and I thought they were just computers. After finishing the tutorial I got warped to that spot in front of the city which got me even more confused and I wondered why I was getting so many messages calling me a noob. By the way, my name was Twizzler-1 back then. I couldn't tell the difference between real people, and baddies so I messaged random people for help and lots of people declined, but then again, a few people actually helped. I remember going around to all the bases asking to join guilds and I found this guy called shadow assassin, who wore that one white reaper head along with big transparent wings. He invited me to his guild house along with a few of his friends, one of his friends was named Sic, which later changed his name to Pyri in era a while later. He quit already like two years ago and he was a good friend. The other girl I forgot who her name was, but she had the purple and black haired head. https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/562332_460191094078186_858685992_n.jpg (Unsupported image host) there's a picture that I took of us three together. They nicknamed me Twiz for short and I liked it so I stuck with it for most of my graalian career. I was a noob with the snowman body, which brings me to the next part. I started playing graal in the winter of 09-10 when they had the thing where you had to find the snowman and he gave you a snowman body. I was so proud when I finally got my snowman body. There was also this guy whose name was Aflak I believe, and he wore that one yellow ostrich head. He was a scammer and glitcher who kept stealing mine and my friends gralats and nobody liked him. Soon after that I had enough money to get an iTunes card and bought the house pack and customization pack. My first outfit was something like... I don't know because I changed my outfit so much because I was so amazed with being able to finally change my look. Anywho, I went with my graal buisness, basing, killing, earning money and stuff. A little while after that era came out and like any other graalian would do, I bought it using the leftover money i had in my iTunes account from when I bought the packs. I had loads of money once I started era. I bought everything from all of the guns, to buying that now out of style dragon car that was once the most expensive car at the time. I bought all of the furniture and literally everything that they had. I was an era freak. I PKed alot too, I was on the "leader boards" for top kills for a while. A little while after era was released the crab m4 droppings came out. I was lucky enough to get mine after about 30 minutes of farming. I continued farming after I had convinced my earlier mentioned friend, Sic, to buy era. I quickly got another m4 and decided that I'd give it to sic because I wanted him to get a good early start to era. I was a nobody in era, nobody liked me for some reason for a while. In February, on valentines day, the new holiday island was released
and again, having loads of cash, I bought almost everything in the shop. I was looked up to by many people because I had all of the cool stuff in the game, so I guess you could
say I bought my way into a little bit of "fame", but only a few people would actually remember me, one which was 99. I was in the gang called Purplocity for a while and got to know a few people there. That was fun. Soon there was this guy who literally had the very first era player customs. I'm pretty sure his name was Vince or something. I liked him and thought he was awesome. Pretty soon everyone started to upload heads and bodies. I felt left out and I didn't feel comfortable using heads that others created, so I decided to learn how to make my own customs. I practiced my skills until they had gotten to the point where I could actually make a head:https://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/284815_103830203047612_240105_n.jpg (Unsupported image host) this is the outfit+my first head that I used for a really long time. I started to practice more and more until I got fairly good at pixel art (but I now realize that I wasn't very good after all, but now I'm a lot better than I was) I eventually got my own hat shop along with my NPC that's probably long gone by now. Around this time, Sic quit graal. I was sad about that because he was the one friend that helped me from the start. I started to get well known around the community and I even made my own website to help out with people that soon got ran out of business because of graal depot. I met this guy named Blak.E, he was my buddy for a really long time. We created a gang called Black Sleet and we based alot. We played Zodiac together for a while. I remember Jatz, too. And Alfonso who was my favorite admin. Jatz was a little trouble maker, he would always hack and when he got banned he would just hack right out of the banhttps://scontent-b-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/271002_103867486377217_2094985_n.jpg (Unsupported image host)https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/284928_103867209710578_5587673_n.jpg (Unsupported image host) Jatz inspired me in a negative way because I, too, started to hack. I wasn't the best at it but I still had fun excluding all of that ban and jail time so instead I started to hack on classic because I could be banned and just switch back to era. I was also one of the best glitchers around and got in trouble for it multiple times. https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/1240404_460191384078157_1002351636_n.jpg (Unsupported image host) I soon realized that those days were over. I wanted to focus on helping the community rather than what I was doing before. I tried to apply multiple times to be PR but sadly, or not so sadly, it depends on how you look at it, I got turned down. I had tons of customs that I'd made and people loved them, I had good friends and stuff, I had like 3000 hours, which was a lot back then, but then something terrible happened. I got a new ipod and wanted to sell my old one but before I did that I wanted to transfer my account. When I sent the email they must have screwed up the transfer and I logged in with 0 hours and 0 kills. Nobody knew who I really was but I knew everybody else and they thought I was an Impostor or something. I realized that I was sad that I lost everything in the game that brought my grades down to Cs and Ds, and the same game that contributed to my depression that lasted like 2 years. I quit. My grades did start to go up and I had a good social life. I had totally forgotten about graal until late august of 2013. I quit in the winter of 2012. I don't know what it was but something drove me back to graal. I came back like a nobody, just how I'd left it. I learned that zone was the best choice to start out again and build up my reputation. When I started playing zone I joined the squad obsidian at about 4300 base hours and slowly helped build their way up to 5000 hours, obsidians goal. I met a variety of people in obsidian, from creative ones, to friendly ones. These were the only people that I knew, and right now, the only people I know. I somehow got back in touch with Blak.E, but we only talked for no more than an hour. That was probably the last time that I will ever see him again. When I came back I decided to try making pixel art again. I found out that I was way better than I was before I quit. I built up my reputation once again and I felt like it was going into a negative direction so I changed my identity to Steam Wizard, and that takes me to where I am now. That's why I continued to play graal, because I missed having friends with similar interests as I did, and people who cared about me.http://076dd0a50e0c1255009e-bd4b8aabaca29897bc751dfaf75b290c.r40.cf1.rackcdn.com/images/files/000/006/085/original/original.0 (Unsupported image host)  

Aint nobody got time to read all dat foo.  

I read it all...  

Why did I continue playing? Well, when I first started I actually thought it was pretty cool, the graphics were nice, and I liked mmos so I continued playing it. Then I made a horrible mistake. I made friends. Yeah we had alot of fun together... before graal became a boring, seducing, hell hole.