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Personally, I found V4's payment system better than V5's. Remember when there were absolutely no updates? It took about 3 months for an update to appear which was usually just some new clothes. I put up with that because I enjoyed Zone and thought that the payment system was pretty cheap (Probably because I am British and had to pay half as much).
However, since V5 came about, the payment system has been utterly ruined. Yes, there have been so many updates thanks to Daniel and the rest of the team, but I'm not going to USD (Or for me GBP) everything that I want. I liked it when there was a fixed payment method where it determined whether you could save or not. Nice and simple, no messing around with Gelats. You payed to save which provided the game, and then the staff provided updates, and wasn't that Graal's biggest pro? Updates could be added easily without the need for releasing patches or such. The payment method now is retarded, where you have to buy absolutely everything separately.
The stuff that you can buy is utterly shameful. Buying things for an online game shouldn't give you an advantage over other players by giving you stronger weapons, it should just distinguish you from the rest, like the golden weapons. In V4 there were tons of things that would make you different from the trials that you could get just from paying once for an entire year!
You could get the bluerifle, jetpack, different coloured sabres, etc. Fair enough, the bluerifle was stronger but only slightly and it's a good example of how far things should go when confronted with stronger P2P weapons. When it got to the photon cannon though, it was just silly, it was completely overpowered and trials couldn't do anything about it. Anyway, the other stuff wasn't necessarily stronger, just different.
Oh and about the spar, I made it because I got complaints 24/7 about people who just generally wanted to spar and kept complaining about the amount of lag there was because of the vast amount of players on the outside of the spar room. There was no denying it either, it was terribly laggy at times. It made matters worse in spar tourneys when the number of players would double, or even triple! This would cause a lot of frustration to people who really wanted to win these tourneys and win the prize. After I finished the map I was going to change the respawn points to a closer destination when you died after sparring, and I was going to have a spectator mode where people could watch those who were fighting. However I had no scripting support from Mr. Knorr who was too 'busy' with other things. |