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Originally Posted by Googi
I'm not convinced that these costs are very high seeing as hardly any of the playerworlds people paid to create are very extensive or consume much bandwidth (because they pretty much just have some idling RCs, at most). If you license GServer software (at a lower price than the server rental fees), the number of people who would stop renting servers because they no longer have to could potentially be large, and I doubt that very many people not already renting servers would want to buy the software. Plus there would be piracy concerns.
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I tried to explain this to him over AIM. There are like 100 private playerworlds with 0 players on them right now. How much could that seriously be costing Graal? That's $10,000 if all 100 of those are 1 year rentals. I highly doubt it's costing $10,000 to host 0 playercount servers.
Graal's main drain in funding would be hosting the gold/classic servers/website and forums, as well as office rental, paying staff, and whatever other fees they might have that are unrelated to playerworld hosting. His idea is for Graal to basically remove the Classic list and host only the gold servers... and then charge people for gservers in which they would have to pay for their own hosting but they could make up their own rules and charge people to play there. Like I told him, they are already making $100 off each playerworld rental and those playerworlds are doing nothing... so what makes him think that any player run server would survive on it's own? Let alone be good enough to make people want to pay for it.
But this pretty much sums him up right here:
ShaunAndresen: I have absolutely no faith in the global GraalOnline bureaucracy
ShaunAndresen: And I have no care for the members of the GraalOnline community
10-08-2006, 05:13 AM
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