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Originally posted by ArchOwl
SAC, ive known some people that lived with their mom at 21, its no big deal for him to live with his mom at 18
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I just got old enough to buy cigarettes and I'm supposed to be living on my own? LOL.. that's how most people get stuck doing the same thing all their life.. I would like to plan my future, not run out and get some job that I'm going to hate.
Luckily my mom is nice enough to understand that I need time to decide where I want to go and what I want to do. It's not like "well you're 18, get out of my house and fend for yourself"
I just think some of you are being all "non-greedy" to make yourselves look good.. I don't know anyone that plays Graal that wouldn't mind making money doing stuff for Graal.
You have to understand that Stefan just basically copied Zelda 3 and made it online, then eventually him but mostly the players, transformed it into Graal and what you see today.. Then he decides to make things p2p.. do you not think he is making profit from it? I don't care how many expenses you have (and alkaren, you realized you stated the same expenses repeatedly):
Servers, Maintenance, Bandwidth, "the servers themselves", hosting, phone lines, cost of buying computers, cost of buying licenses
All of that is what you normally find in one package deal for dedicated server hosting, and that's what Graal has, because they do not have the server themselves, they have virtual servers, meaning they are located in different locations run by other companies.. I'm sure they pay one flat fee for the server costs (maintenance, service, bandwidth, servers) then they get their little office, and you don't buy computers every day for your office, they buy gameboy advances and sodas, they obviously have extra money. They probably just have a small office with a net connection and a few computers.
They would not be running Graal as p2p if they weren't profiting from it. I highly doubt they are running servers at the office, stefan said he had a DSL line, that isn't anything near enough to run Graal on.
Stefan doesn't want to talk about it because he knows that they profit and thinks that as long as no one mentions paying the people helping Graal, then they will get to keep all the profit they make, from a game they completely copied from zelda 3.