
02-15-2006, 10:39 PM
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Psionic Youth
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Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Babord, West Graal Deaths:1009 Kills:1
Posts: 5,635
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See, Fukie gets it. The great thing about Graal is that you can develop your OWN game, rather than a Flavor of Graal; but the interface is very much FLAVOR OF GRAAL. I'm all for Graal getting a slice of the splash screen, much as Sega and Nintendo and Playstation do, but when I plug in FFX it goes to FFX, it doesn't ask if I wanna play Playstation Online first.
The way I look at it, people should be able to go to [Tyhm'sGame].com - even if it's just a front for tyhmsgame.graal.net - register an account (and the money goes first to Graal, so everyone's happy) - download the client (from Graal's server) - and when it installs, it's Installing: Tyhmsgame, and when it opens it's Tyhmsgame - powered by Graal Online. The serverlist is
*Tyhmsgame
[] Other Graal Servers
in a closed folder...when you're tired of Tyhmsgame, hey, your subscription lets you play alll these other worlds too. What a neat feature! Hey Billy, Tyhmsgame rules!
Graal gets richer, I get my game hosted at minimal cost to myself, and it's MY game hosted by Graal, not Another Flavor of Graal In One Of The Folders.
I'm not saying tyhmsgame.graal.net hosts its own deprecated copy of the setup files, but it hosts more a batch file; it hosts a program that unzips a batch file, quietly downloads the most recent setup file (with all the automatic updates and other playerworld stuff intact), says it's Installing [name from the config file], then installs the skinned version of the exact same Graal client everyone has. It doesn't look like the Kingdoms client, but that's entirely a matter of aesthetics.
Do you get what I'm sayin'? I mean, the way it is now it's like downloading BattleNet to play Starcraft rather than playing Starcraft to get on BattleNet. |
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