GraalOnline Era

This game is basically a virtual playground for whales. Everything is overly expensive, and all the new stuff that comes out is increasingly more expensive than before. I thought the bar was overpriced as hell 10 years ago, but now we've got guns double the price of that. The grind is so bad that you're better off working a real job and just buying in-game currency. 10 bucks for roughly 30k, while you literally need to shovel sand in the game for like 15-20 hours to get the same amount. You could argue this is part of the gameplay loop, but no, they're using this as a cope to excuse the lack of actual in-game content and activities. The only redeeming factor is the events, where you have a chance to earn something decent if you're willing to put the hours in. To actually play and enjoy the game, you have to dump roughly 100 euros into in-game currency just to afford a decent gun, since 90% of the cheap/budget guns are filler junk that'll basically scam you. And then... congratulations, you just saved yourself approximately a THOUSAND HOURS of mind-numbing grind and unlocked "FUN." You can now carelessly mow down all the peasants struggling to make money by collecting trash on the streets. That is, if you can find any of them. Not many are left to shoot. The game hovers around average 900 players, but a solid 80% of them are grinding for money in safe zones. You've got maybe 40 people in Plasma and a handful roaming the streets. The rest are holding gang territory or just AFK somewhere. Whales are the only reason Graal still functions to this day. The whole operation is allegedly being run by a skeleton crew with a nonexistent owner and has been for the past 10 years. Literally nothing has changed, they're still understaffed, and the people managing the game are incompetent beyond belief. It's a mystery how this company manages to function, but I guess the endless amount of money handed to them by whales willing to buy and spend 2 mil worth of currency (roughly 700 euros, btw) on some flashy sword from auction is enough to keep the lights on. They run auctions like this constantly, for multiple items at a time, probably enough to cover payroll for every employee they have and somehow, someway, things are still horrible and unchanged. Support is obviously nonexistent as well given all that, and you'll wait weeks just for a reply. The general infrastructure around the company and the game is so lacklustre and questionable it makes you wonder if this is all just a big money laundering operation. If you want to cope and relive your childhood for like 2 weeks, the game isn't all that bad. But after that, you'll start wondering if your past self was... "slow" for enduring this. In reality, this game isn't free, because the only way to enjoy it long-term is to get rid of the endless grind by swiping your card. Only then can you actually take part in the gang-related activities and other PVP aspects and PVP is the ONLY thing left to do. The social part of the game is completely gone. Clubs, churches, other hangout spots are all entirely empty. No one talks to you unless they want to trade or do business, and even then, most players have chat turned off, or aren't fluent in English when they do talk. All of this is only a fraction of the issues this game has and I'm sure other reviews cover things I have left out. I've mostly refrained from using strong language, but believe me, no one is happy about the state of the game and the people behind it. If you do not mind that you are directly enriching actual greedlord jew ♥♥♥♥♥♥ who does not care about you in the slightest, I guess you can give it a go. I'd still advise you to not spend any money on this game, it's not worth it at all, but if you insist, only buy enough for a weapon and never again.