I couldn't resist offering some suggestions

[EliteDeath]

This is going to get nowhere. Graal is an extremely cheap online rpg when compared to others.

If people don't want to support Graal and pay 15 dollars to play the classic servers, they don't need to be here. I'm sure there is no one here that could not pay 15 dollars. That's like less than you spend eating lunch at school for a week. That's like a large pizza and soda's. That's like 1/4th of a videogame. That's like 3 movie rentals.

I mean seriously, there is no point in making Graal free, unless you just like seeing Graal fall into a pit of despair. If Graal is free, nobody could afford the servers, and they would be taken down, and there would be no Graal. Sorry, but I'm closing this topic unless someone finds a reasonable and legal way to provide free Graal without Graal losing money.

Above quote by Konidias

my reply:
Although I agree 500% that 15 bucks is DIRT cheap I, being the argumentative jerk that I am, had to offer some solutions, #1 banner advertising is able to keep some servers on popular things up (:oints at gamefaqs.com where banner advertising supports them for quite a good web server: if you forced them to click a banner before playing each time this could (theoretically) work.

#2) Corporate endorsement, sell graal to some big wig company like Blizzard who will provide bettere management, and only make you pay once (like for Diablo)

#3) Threaten to send nude pictures of Birdbird (<3 birdo) across the world in a giant chain letter, governments will cave in and support you with billions of dollars to prevent such a catastrophe.