[G_yoshi]

Can't do anything real drastic, but raising standards all around might encourage more people to play. Of course, it will cause others to leave, but that is thier problem because they won't accept those kinds of changes. While this game as a whole can function, with its major control base being run by teens between 13 and 17, it doesn't help for making good decisions about the directions in which things should go.

This is not to say that Cyberjoyuers (sp?) has made bad decisions or that there aren't young persons capable of making better choices and trying to gain a bigger scope of things. I just think its time to give a reasonable balance of control back to Cyberjoyuers. Its a good thing to have the players take a part in choosing the directions in which to go in, but because many of us are guilty of being selfish, we tend to do and say things that will only better ourselves rather than everyone as community. I'm guilty of this too a lot of times.

I think the decisions with how Graal Kingdoms looks and so forth is a good idea, I just wish many others would do the same thing too. But until many of us, including myself, stop being self-centered and immature and start focusing our concerns on how our actions affect the community, many things will not rise above the comfort zone of mediocrity. If Graal as a whole can break past that, it may attract more talent to help improve and help rise even higher. I think it would be a wonderful achievement to be able to walk into a store and see Graal on the shelf with other games.

Chances of that happening anytime soon are pretty much nil. Not many people are willing to sacrifice the money for Graal when a good portion of it (at this point in time) does not have very appealing standards and the community is not very close together. Of course, its impossible to be perfect in either of those things, but it is not impossible to for them to reach a high level of excellence.

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