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Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu
Well, the way I see it is that prices didn't increase arbitrarily. If Stefan and Unixmad are just trying to make ends meet, they wouldn't hike up prices for no reason. I have faith that didn't do that. So, we have to assume that costs rose, and we have to assume that people upgrading their accounts to work on UC servers helps zero out the balance sheet (accounting terms, but you get the idea).
If people no longer have to upgrade their accounts, then that stream of revenue is going to have to come from somewhere else.. meaning basic account upgrade prices are going to increase, or servers are going to be more expensive to rent, or both.
For every yin, there is a yang. For ever dollar UC developers don't have to pay, regular players or server owners are going to have to pay an extra dollar.
Needless to say, there are 6 servers developers can work on, without having to upgrade... if they have Lifetime Classic, anyways. Valikorlia is always looking for LATs and GATs.  |
I would want to assume they would make their money for uc worlds off how much people pay anyways. If they want to make ends meet somewhere, they could always hike up the price of a playerworld a bit and let the uc worlds be loginable for staff.
Also, I'm sure there are plenty of people whose interests lie in something different than the 6 classic servers you speak of.