[Demisis_P2P]

I love when people use the old "Graal is worth it because you're really paying for the chance to learn game development! And that might help you get a job later in life!!"

Wow. So, my cleaning lady should be paying me for cleaning my room because she's learning how to clean better and will probably be good at cleaning other people's houses in the future? Thanks guys! I'm totally gonna go put Graal on my resume now.

If you want to learn to script or make graphics there are plenty of ways to do that for free.
You're paying to play a game where you're treated like an employee by other kids and people are taking all your hard work for free. Work that you could theoretically be getting paid for if you were developing iPhone apps, or flash games, or making skins for programs, etc.

And now you can't even work on UC servers without a gold subscription, rofl. That is really going to encourage more people to develop your game for you, especially when there was already a developer shortage.

UC servers should be free to play (but still charge $100 or whatever for hosting).
This should see UC servers get boosted player counts which will likely translate into a boosted developer count.
Once the UC server is developed to a decent stage it can be made Classic, at which point suddenly all the people who have been playing it for free will need to upgrade their accounts to keep playing/developing it.
People who are too cheap to upgrade will probably just go play/develop on another UC server until eventually that server goes Classic too.
Rinse and repeat.
Suddenly Graal has attracted a lot of new developers with free UC servers and has multiple new Classic servers with their own dedicated playerbases (instead of the same players jumping between Zodiac, Era and UN).