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Ofcourse there is the possibility of there being a conflict of interests with the servers being so similar, but while it is incredible that the iPhone version is maintaining so many players (although perhaps not a huge surprise, it is free), and that it clearly has a lot of potential and could even revitalise Graal, i'm personally not impressed with the server itself from a Developers standpoint, as it turns out they are going in a completely different direction with it compared to Main Classic, it is more revolved around being interactive (than lets say Questing as a main example) largely due to the iPhones lower CPU capabilities and in terms of generating income i'm told it will be item-based, but then it's not as if the server was really designed with this in mind either, sadly when I have visited i've seen a high amount of confusion among it's players regarding what there is to do, I think it needs a lot more work including planning before being fully pushed otherwise I believe it will be a case of unfulfilled potential.

The affect it will have on Main Classic really comes down to how it is handled, on one hand it can generate added interest through both introducing players to Graal and acting as a form of advertisement for the server, as mentioned within the main thread there could be a special form of subscription tieing iPhone in with Main Graal, this coupled with perhaps a special tab on the serverlist for iPhone servers could provide a scenario where normal subscription prices are lowered with the knock-on effect of iPhone/other new players subscribing and global playercount rising.
On the other hand if no special effort was put towards accomodating it, and let's say it was rushed in its current form to appear on the Classic Tab (which I don't really believe it has the quality for but is a possibility) this would likely result in it being fun at first but failing to succeed in the long run, as well as having a highly detrimental effect on Main Classics chances, there is no way of knowing for sure until both of the projects are complete, but hopefully if handled correctly by Stefan there will be no issue.