The Reason You Can't Quit Graal
 

Face it, you've tried at one time or another. Have you been successful? Well, since you're reading this, probably not. Why is Graal so addictive? Why can't we quit? Well actually, let me explain the psychological side of things and group the types of people/audience that Graal appeals to.

First off, Graal brings back memories from our childhood. Not just because it represents Zelda: A Link To The Past. But because a lot of role-played as children. Such as little girls and boys who used to play "house". Dress up, have their little treehouse, pretend to cook, be who they wanna be. It may not seem like it, but this plays an important role in many peoples reason for playing. Subconsciously, of course.

Second, Graal allows you to be independent. Your own person. Its not a roleplaying game where you choose from pre-made characters, you get to grow yourself, your social status, change your look, and even submit your very own looks to make it even more personal. Being independent, we feel in control and being in control is "possessing" something. Making Graal one of our possessions, very hard to let go of. It grows on you. Ask the old-timers.

Third, for Classic, there's not much change. But that gives people an adrenaline rush when there is change. For Era, there is constant change which keeps your blood pumping, which is essential for the fast-paced style of Era.

Conclusively, Graal is like FaceBook, interactive. There are real people, real-time interaction, real connections, real friendships, etc. This gives you an emotional connection, along with the possessive personality. You may be able to quit for some time, maybe months or years at a time, but everyone will come back to it eventually. Whether in their thoughts, memories or on their iDevices/PCs.

I once got arrested and rushed to the hospital (don't ask). I was in the waiting room with the police officer who happened to ask me what I did in my spare time. I told him I liked to play games, so he asked me what kind of games. I said "Graal" and he knew exactly what I meant, cause he too played Graal when he was younger. According to him, the dating and babies still existed back then...I hope for a better future at least.

I liked that informational piece especially the part with the cop that was pretty cool although no way to prove it's truth...

so truee...

Your lying about the cop. IPhone graal hasn't been out that long, and I doubt he was one of the few players on it back then. Plus back then on pc graal there weren't baby's and dating and crap like that. At least not at all like in iPhone graal. This cop would also need to be young to have been able to play pc graal when he was a kid.

I've never tried to quit. I know I'd be back in record time.

You'd be surprised how long PC's been about.
babies and dating have been around since the start of it, too, just not as many. The cop coulda been like... 30? and graals been around since like 1990 something. It's possible eitherway, just unlikely

But nothing like on iPhone. There was nearly as many players

I've tried to quit a few times, never worked... I just give up on quitting now. Pretty easy to quit runescape and such though :0

I'm not a quitter. :-D

Ok so that's why I find a fair bit of people that are 18+ on this game

Graal is easy to quit, and there are many ways.

1) Hold down the Graal icon until the little "x" apears in the corner, tap it and press yes.

2) Delete all screenshots of Graal.

2a) If that doesnt work, pour water over your iDevice.

3) Never think about it again and get some sun.


For PC players...

1) Uninstall Graal from your computer.

2) Delete all history of browsing Graal forums, and images/levels, etc. from your computer.

2a) If that doesnt work, throw your waterlogged iDevice at your computer screen.

3) Empty recycle bin.

4) Get some fresh air.

Graal Classic is boring, lazy, and so far in awful development (Really slow awful development... Face the truth). The game is now focused towards the cash market as always and makes players slice their body everyday due to the high amounts of wanted cash... It'll never be missed or it'll never be played by me for a very long time...

Im not gonna stay on that game at all... Glad i've quit now

-Graal Classic gets Messed up people emotional... And therefore stay on the game for such "BS" emotions towards pixels... Yes, if you're emotional to pixels, you have some serious issues my friend...

-Cause most of the players date,marry, and pretends to be babies in the game... Which leads again to the following reason above

-It does not bring back any memories of Link to the past (and that game can be played on an emulator or buy the game for about 5-20 bucks). I've known more people that complain how its nothing to Zelda other than the basics.

-The only people that come back on Graal are the idiots who stays up all night waiting for their bans to be released and do the same thing all over again

-Independent? Lies! If you gonna try to look independent, follow it up with around 50 people stealing your custom pixels... And the admins ain't gonna give a damn about that because they say its called "Sharing"

If i said something you already said, then sorry for skimming it... But one question... Why the hell did we make a graal forum then!?

And hell, i was successful... Graal Classic is easy to quit if you got A better game to play like Mortal Kombat, LBP2, Call of Duty, Super Mario, Skyward Sword at its release and alot more better games...

Seriously, who the hell gets addicted to this game? I've never seen such an addiction like this ever since drugs were introduced to the world...

All i do now for Graal Classic is discusses ideas on how to make it Not Boring!

Just thaught people might want to see this again, in case they missed it. Or if they want to read it twice, like me.

Lol... Well thanks... Im not sure if you put it in a good way or a bad way xD

Graal is just like any other game kay?

If I wanted to quit CoD Black ops I would snap my game disc.

Oh and by the way, its in a good way because people always quit, come back, quit, come back, etc. So if ya wanna quit dont go back on your word guys.

The cop bit is actually 100% true. I don't know about America, but our police system you can get a job at about 20. I'm guessing he was 24 by the looks of it. He told me about how he builds and repairs computers and plans on running a water system through one of his PCs to keep it cool. And the reason I was rushed to the hospital is because I accidentally cut myself with this knife and our phone was down "during Christmas, cuz we were too busy buying presents for the 10 kids to pay the bill". Anyways, phone wasn't working, so my ex from Alberta called the police for me from halfway across Canada. Idk why the hell she called the police and not the ambulance, but I was rushed to the hospital which is about an hour away, got asked if I did drugs, if I cut myself intentionally, all that stuff. We waited about 2 hours literally for the nurse. So while we were in there, this police officer talked to me about Graal, Starcraft and Zelda. He's like "Graal was for us players who couldn't afford or go out and buy the actual Zelda". He goes "there was this snowy place in one of the top corners, right?" and I'm like yeah, snow town. And then he goes "wow, that brings back memories...people used to date on their and pretend to have children and babies". And if you don't believe me, call the Middleton Royal Canadian Mounted Police and ask for Derek. I'm too lazy to supply you guys with the number.

EDIT:
you can even ask my ex about her calling the police for me. Not like I care about giving out her email lol or her phone number, but she's a cranky b**** (excuse the language) and you will have to hear her rage on about me getting her grounded last Halloween lol

WTF DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH QUITTING GRAAL CLASSIC!?!?!? =.=

Because he was talking to a cop about Graal Classic and quitting or something..

No, Higbey made a comment that said I was lying about the cop part in my original post. I was just proving him wrong that I did actually meet an officer that used to play Graal Classic PC when he was younger and that I met this officer when I was rushed to the hospital.

Dude... Graal Classic is a memory to no one...
Its a copy and paste Zelda clone with online support and terrible features...
Im sure people would remember link to the past more than Graal Classic...

....don't respond to a thread unless you know what we are even talking about, let alone what you're talking about yourself. I listed some psychological reasons why it's hard for people to quit iClassic Graal, then I added a little piece about how I met a guy who played PC GRaal when he was younger. Higbey said I didn't meet the guy (who happens to an RCMP officer) and I replied to prove him wrong about meeting this guy. What does this have to do with who remembers which game most?

Shayne... I'm pretty sure your lying. The area now called snowtown wasn't called that back then. And it wasnt in the upper right hand, there was stuff beyond it on the original gmap.

better yet... What does your story have to do with people who cannot quit graal? ._.

Keep that information to yourself... To be honest, no one needed to know that

Someone who remembers graal can quit graal... Just because u remember it doesn't mean you did not quit the game...

The only time graal classic was memorable is when the game wasn't screwed up by a group of role playing freaks

Edit: one last thing... If you can't afford the actual Zelda game, then I believe you are too young still or that you can't get a job...

Sorry but those are my facts

higbey do you not dare take my offer of being proved wrong because you don't want your ego to be lowered? if you want, i can get in contact with this man and actually have him Skype you or whatever. because i'm not lying. some parts i don't remember correctly, but he did know what Graal was and used to play.

this goes with the "graal as a possession" thing. we can't quit because we are in control of our player, therefore we posess it making Graal our possession. just like the story of the guy i met who used to play as a kid. he still hasn't let go of his memories. quitting is entirely abandoning the game. if you still have it in your memories as an enjoyable game, then you still at least 0.1% like it to some point. unless you're a critic who likes to troll your hatred.

How to quit: Get banned. That is all.

Quitting is to exit the app and delete the god damn app and never mention of it again... Just because you remember the game does not mean you did not quit it... If you quit the god damn game, you quit the god damn game...

This isn't advanced logic im speaking here.... This is something you should know from the very beginning.... If i quit a game of Mortal kombat... I quit a game of Mortal kombat!

Memories don't tell anything at all if you're quitting or not.... Its just freaking memories of the times you played Graal. If you quit the god damn game... YOU QUIT THE GOD DAMN GAME!

Dear lord, where the hell did you come up with your logic?

It was named Sylphia but has always been referred to as Snow Town lol.

Did you not read the "psychological explanation" part? Quitting isn't just about not playing. If you shop at a store and then stop shopping at a store, it will in some way affect you. The fact that you shopped at that store is going to subconsciencly affect your choice of change to a different Market. You may not be talking advanced logic, but I am. I was discussing the psychological factors that keep you playing, that affect your future of gaming, that keep your memories, etc.

Its like a disorder, listen to this. If someone has bipolar and they take medicine to TREAT it, that doesn't mean it's gone. If they take therapy to totally wipe it from their mind, then it's gone. Maybe not forever, but its no longer in existence to them. Now, if you delete the app, that is jsut like the treatment. The fact, the memories, everything is still there. To totally wipe it out of your mind is quitting. People have failed to quiet, even when they deleted the app because that is not quitting, that is just treating your problem by getting rid of your method of playing. If you don't have the app, you cant play. That's a treatment. To totally forget about the game and never mention or think about it again is qutting. If we still have the memories, there is a 50/50 chance we will come back and be just as addicted as we were before. Nuff said.

Higbey, why is it so hard to believe a police driver used to play Graal? Have u forgotten that people grow up and get lives eventually? I heard some staff on a PC server was a firefighter? Is it his job status that makes it had to believe? And trust me, I was shocked myself to find a random stranger vie never known before that used to play Graal before I even knew it existed. Heck, you could move on to be the president, how does someones job status affect whether or not I'm lying?

Holy sh*t... Are you addicted to iClassic more than smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol!? You have some serious issues my friend and you need to go see a therapist right away...

And no, quitting is quitting! You have memories of it but you still quit the god damn game! This is F**king common logic and you're trying to argue against it!

If i quit a studio where im making a game with them that got 25% finished... and then they got the game finished and released a year ago and i remember that game but i quitted the studio... That is not quitting!?!

Quitting is not a fkin treatment... Quitting is Quitting... To Quit is to give up... You can give up on things and still have memories of them...

So imagine if i smoked then i quitted Smoking... So i have times i used to Smoke... I still quitted smoking after those days... Oh wait i remember i used to smoke... I didn't quit smoking at all right!?

JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE MEMORIES DOES NOT MEAN YOU DID NOT QUIT THE GAME

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quit
I want you to go on this website and repeat the definition of QUIT over and over while reading my words so you can understand the common logic of quitting...

Why does everyone try to go around this kind of logic? Its not an argument. Its common logic!

Stop having a teary about it and buy a dictionary.

Ermm, Maikeru? I don't think he was being literal. I think he was trying to make a point that if you still think about Graal your most likely coming back, because its freaking addictive..

Chances are 50/50... It can't be "Most likely"
And dear god, Graal isn't that freaking addictive...
Im not gonna spill out bad words upon you because you're actually being descriptive and honest on your opinion but c'mon... Its not life... Its just a video game that anyone can enjoy for just a few seconds/hours...

Why has no one tried other games?
Graal isn't addictive... Its fun but not Addictive...

Eh, I'll never quit...

This is turning into a flame war. Can we get back on track? For Classic, I can quit easily. Era, no. I like something that keeps my head head from exploding from boredness. And, it's a painkiller to me. I finish my homework, eat dinner, take a shower, then play Graal until I go to bed. Then I stay up a lil later than that and play some more Graal.

I wasn't saying "classic is addictive" or "era is addictive", I'm simply stating which factors affect you're inability to quit. Many people can quit without a problem anytime they want, but I was just listing the reasons why people who try end up failing.

Anything and everything can be addictive. There's a show called strange addictions. I'm not addicted to many of the things on there, but they discuss why those people are in the first place.

Well the only reason is because of the cash they actually wasted on the game and the friends they created through total social chat on Graal Classic.

Other than that, theres possibly no other reason why you should get addicted to Graal Classic... Nuff Said...

Actually there are a lot of psychological reasons why people can't stop playing any game. Constantly changing images, environments, sounds and lights. Same reason people get addicted to gambling at slot machines. The lights, the sounds, the constxantlh changing numbers and adrenaline rush. And then when you get so close you're like "I know I can do better" and try again and gaain, eventually wasting so much money.

I can quit easily. Just haven't attempted, purely because I don't want to.

I can't quit. I tried once. Got back 2 hours later. I can't quit because i fell i have a sort of a family in it. I have great friends and everyday i have fun playing this game.

If you feel like your wasting too much time playing, simply take a break. Maybe take a week off without playing Graal. I've never really tried to quit, but i try to play in moderation. Just keep in mind that it's only a game. :P

Me? Would seem hard to quit graal! My friend menchioned it to me and i was like "ill try it out" first time HOOKED! couldn stop playing! I played it everymorning before school and ended up sneaking my ipod under the covere at night and play it without my parents noticing! After classic i moved to era and i love era way more then classic! I sometimes like to check on the updates in classic sometimes and if im bored ill jon guilDs in classic but im more of a era person! I got tons of friends in era! Saying goodbye would be hard D,:

Y U BUMP! Haha

so true

...and then I realized this thread originally died several months ago.

Haha i brought it back!

Whenever i quit graal coz its boring i only last like a month, then im on it 24/7

When I usually am bored of Graal I just find something else to do while Graal is on at the same time.

I just don't "quit" and save myself the embarrassment of being on later on in the day.

Ah. The reason I began to play Graal was because I was looking for a quality app for my iPod that would keep me busy. Era has done exactly that. I've made so many friends and enemies along the way. Aside from the social aspects of the game, the gameplay is great. Basetaking was great back when my gang was alive and well. PK is fine, just not for me. Sparring I found very entertaining to do, and watch. I loved when staff would do gangsparing events. I would quickly gather a few members and head to the arena. Yep.

Its not about the gameplay, because, lets face it. Almost every other game out there can manage better gameplay than graal. Its about the social aspect. Thats the addiction. Its not the game, its the people. So theoretically Maikeru, you haven't quit the entity we call 'graal'. By being on this site, or having people from the graal community added on facebook, you are still 'playing' Graal. Minus the gelats and gralat packs.

But when ur 40 you must quit.