Posted by NYN

The way it was... so like.... no hats, no items, no nothing... Just chatting? I liked those days. And the only things you would spend money on is arrows and bomb for killing others.

Ya give them one thing, and they just want more more more.

Lol... No i meant as in change the gralat spawn rate back to it originally was... I don't mind the new items coming out really... Im just not in the mood to go purchase an Itunes card everytime i want to earn gralats  

Posted by Maikeru

Lol... No i meant as in change the gralat spawn rate back to it originally was... I don't mind the new items coming out really... Im just not in the mood to go purchase an Itunes card everytime i want to earn gralats

Was never changed?  

Posted by NYN

Was never changed?

It was...
The gralats don't appear much as they used to before...
And there is barely any gralats showing up in my guild house  

Well; Unixmad has to pay for his bread somehow.  

Posted by Twinny

I don't know about the others but Runescape has a substantial member base paying a lot more per month than most Graalians would. I think that memberbase would keeping them afloat rather than the ads.

Runescape is a very expansive game with a serious amount of gameplay and top quality updates, they can charge that much and get away with it because they deserve it, they have alot of staff working on runescape hence the need to charge such a price so you can't really use this as an excuse. Also there free play mode is great fun as well. If graal had more to offer then yes... paying more for the game is justified but no... not much is changing yet push to use irl money is growing. Perhaps if stefan released some of his show cased content in this video:

people might not complain and just say... well they have been working hard so it is worth paying money to support this game. Until then paying for a game with so little in comparison to alot of free play games is just madness.  

Posted by Jatz

Well; Unixmad has to pay for his bread somehow.

Ill bet money unimax and stephan make 80k usd or 100k usd per year..

Posted by Tricxta

Runescape is a very expansive game with a serious amount of gameplay and top quality updates, they can charge that much and get away with it because they deserve it, they have alot of staff working on runescape hence the need to charge such a price so you can't really use this as an excuse. Also there free play mode is great fun as well. If graal had more to offer then yes... paying more for the game is justified but no... not much is changing yet push to use irl money is growing. Perhaps if stefan released some of his show cased content in this video:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hf_dhpAi7Q">YouTube Link</a>
people might not complain and just say... well they have been working hard so it is worth paying money to support this game. Until then paying for a game with so little in comparison to alot of free play games is just madness.

I love the rs comparison and yes your righr  

If it 'aint broke, don't fix it. If you don't like it, why buy it?  

Posted by Shannon

If it 'aint broke, don't fix it. If you don't like it, why buy it?

Have to get items somehow... And it is broken  

Posted by Shannon

If it 'aint broke, don't fix it. If you don't like it, why buy it?

I think this summed up our points here  

i miss old graal. bring it back. think how much money they would still make from people buying the game from the app store, if the game became really popular. but they are failing to make it better.  

Posted by nPenguin

i miss old graal. bring it back. think how much money they would still make from people buying the game from the app store, if the game became really popular. but they are failing to make it better.

Actually it was better when the new things arrived. The only complaints are the prices of the upload system (which will never change) and the tweaks that tries to constrict players into trying to make them purchase gralat packs

And don't expect the old graal back... Its gonna stay this way... You don't like it... Then quit the game at your own will  

Posted by spades of feare

Ill bet money unimax and stephan make 80k usd or 100k usd per year..

Than Graal wouldn´t be in some kind of financial problems. You might think they get the full ammount of the App´s price and the inApp price, but that´s wrong. I think like 75% of it goes to Apple. The PC version is kind of a good way of earning the money but the low price won´t get as much profit as the iVersion (even if they won´t get the full profit), since there are just more players.  

No, i don't believe in some huge Graal conspiracy, but i have noticed a huge drop in gralat spawning rate. I used to buy 90 bombs, invite one or two people to my guild house, and make 1000 gralats. Now, i invite 5 people to my guild house, and make 400-500 gralats... I completely understand how people could take that as greed, considering i thought that as soon as the farm at ballamb was removed. But no use complaining about this, if the new farming system hasnt been fixed yet, odds are it never will be. Let's just suck it up and continue living in a world with fire-breathing horses, money generating grass, and an unnecessary boxing glove image that makes you grab things  

Posted by NYN

You're 15. You're not old enough to have a job. You don't know anything about business. You don't know the value of a dollar because you probably have never paid a bill. You're obviously still mad because you were banned. And finally:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8smiPhZ5XZ0/TirqwYfzCmI/AAAAAAAAAF4/cn_uAdZIPEE/s1600/record_player.jpg (Unsupported image host)

(It's broken)

If there was a problem with the way the game is making money, it would probably be changed. It's not, so obviously the game is stable with its profits, whatever that may be. It obviously isn't much because the game isn't getting much coverage in 3rd parties. It's a private company. Leave it alone.

You're in your twenties and play Graal. You work for a server that pays you no money at all. Good for you. It would be at least interesting if you had a server or something show for it.

Higbey is better off

Oh look what I found. It's on the Eurocenter iPhone YouTube channel.

ClassicGraal (8 months ago)
So Mr. Knorr and Mr. Portha, I've noticed that an Era iPhone server is up an running, and that other PC servers such as Kingdoms and Zodiac are also in the works towards an iPhone release, perhaps we should collaborate and make an iPhone server that is based on the original PC server Classic, what do you think?

 

Posted by callimuc

Than Graal wouldn´t be in some kind of financial problems. You might think they get the full ammount of the App´s price and the inApp price, but that´s wrong. I think like 75% of it goes to Apple. The PC version is kind of a good way of earning the money but the low price won´t get as much profit as the iVersion (even if they won´t get the full profit), since there are just more players.

I believe apple gets 20% of app purchases and 30% of in app purchases