Why (Stefan)?

[Mark Sir Link]

Originally Posted by Stephen

I second this.

Why's that? I assume they could run upward of 10 Playerworlds easily from one typical machine, which would run around 100 dollars a month.

I'm too lazy to check but the last time I ordered 6 months of a Playerworld, the cost was 56 dollars. I am only going to assume the price has gone up since then, so let's say it's 60 dollars for 6 months.

By running 10 Playerworlds on one machine, they are already breaking even.

Running any more playerworlds on the same machine results in a profit.

I believe a Gold account now runs for something like 50 dollars a year, meaning only 24 players would need to maintain a gold account to keep the Classic/Gold servers afloat.


All this said, I believe Graal is already running on adequate servers given the fact that it has the least downtime of any online game I've ever played before, but I do wonder if perhaps players are being gouged on accounts.