That would make sense and is probably the case.
From what I’ve seen and heard Stefan left back in August or September of last year, but official business and legal things take time to do especially if they wait before filing them.
Nobody really seems to know all the details on it or the circumstances behind it all… Did Stefan quit?, was he kicked out by Stephane.
Stefan and Stephane weren’t always so close and chummy as most Graal people believed, most Graal people actually think Stephane and Stefan are the same person -.- . In fact they were like oil and water since 1999, the whole GraalOnline team was/is a chaotic mess filled with infighting.
Heres a fun flashback to the past, I was actually around Graal during that time, it’s hilarious and even more insane than the stuff you can still find online. https://web.archive.org/web/19990828111759/http:/graal.goth.net/march_week5.htm
[quote] G.O.S.N - March, Week 5, 1999 12:23pm (EST)
Until the begining of this week, I actually believed that Graal had a running change to survive through the summer. But with the recient
occurance of several ground breaking events, Graal will die. Stefan and Cyberjoueur are fighting againce each other in a losing battle
for control. Neither of them know the critical steps involved with software development and marketing. Henious lack of communication,
late product releases, non-existant status reports, developer and producer only listen to specific individuals, allowing untrustworthy beta
testers to distrute to pass around gserver and ggold32, an inconclusive license aggrement with tons-o-loopholes, giving the guild code
generator out to two beta testers (one of which is already abusing it), [rumor] giving out the graal source to a beta tester, no timeline has
been defined, no goals have been set, and they don’t even have a marketing plan.
I steped forward as a leaizon between Cyberjoueur and the Graal players only because I had previous experience developing marketable
software. I didn’t want to see Cyberjoueur make the same mistakes I once did. But even after going through all the trouble of late night ICQ
chats w/ CJ, trouble shooting techincal problems with numerus players evin while I was on vacation, and requesting that Stefan implemented
specific modules back in November (which are only now being thought about).
When I tried to give the players something to do by initating a reconstruction of the main lands of Graal attempting to make the game better,
I was impeeded by many of the older players who wanted me to leave well enough alone. No one seemed to believe by intentions were
for the better of Graal. I wasn’t trusted. I then posted a lenghty paragraph explaining, in detail, what I was attempting to do. Again, players
disregarded my post and continued to complain.
How they actually worked together for so long defies all conventions of logic, science and common sense… I guess enough money or power can keep any people together for awhile.
I don’t see where Graal goes from here or how it stays afloat like that. It will probably just be a stagnant cashcow with no support as Stephane retires with his bread laughing at all the dumb kiddies. Graal on Facebook and iPhone will probably still be around in 2020 and even 2030, hell I see even worse games on Steam and Mobile platforms becoming successful now. Kids and gamers these days have lost all sense of good taste…
Unless Stephane tries hex or res editing v6 to rename it to v7 to try tricking the kiddies there will certainly never be a new version of the PC client again, in fact keeping what’s already up from just crashing will be a miracle, the guy has proven that he can’t even run a basic vBulletin, WordPress, PHPNuke or PostGres setup properly or securely by himself. After alienating and attacking every possible developer that ever helped him, I doubt finding a new chump that can do a good job would be easy…
It’s just not and never will be good again nor will it be the same Graal I and many others remembered, that will have to come from here or other independent communities. I still lurk around here to occasionally find fun moments, reunions and good times like this https://warosu.org/vr/thread/378508
