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Originally Posted by Darlene159
My account is upgraded 
The good members can upgrade. It is really quite inexpensive. |
Upgrade just to browse the forums? I can't think of any other forums that make you pay to use. If Graal is this desperate for money, maybe they should think of alternatives. I always pictured the forums as more of a refuge for those who upgraded, even if they didn't play anymore. Why would I pay for a gold subscription, when I don't want to play, just browse the forums? Any payment is too much for a forum, the fact that you had to have a classic subscription is odd compared to other games. But it never bothered me because it did stop people from creating expendable accounts. Classic accounts, however, are not quite expendable.
Everyone who gets tired of playing Graal and decide to troll, can do the same exact thing with a gold account.
EDIT: No one is saying that maintaining a website/forums is free. But EVERY OTHER PLACE MANAGES IT. There are so many alternatives, donations, ads, hell, maybe even try to find a sponsor. Graal is the only place I have ever been to that required subscriptions to use the forums.
And really, unless you make the whole forums private, it's not going to cut the bandwidth as long as people can still browse.