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Originally Posted by qwertyas
Maybe so, but when you buy a game that cost you around 75$(in Canada anyway) and that each addons cost the same, I think that you paid enough to get all of those servers running and people paid. And then you have to pay to play?
And it's not like you can play offline. At least if it had an offline play mode, you could decide if you wanted to pay for the online gameplay or enjoy it alone.
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I sense a flaw in your logic.
You pay 75 canadian dollars, and expect that to cover the costs of development/production, the fees of the server setups and other machinery, the added bills to keep the systems running (electricity for example), the fees for the people working on keeping the servers running, the fees and equipment of the people developing the content patches that are regularly released.....and so forth.
Unrealistic is the name of the detected flaw.
Sure it can cover decent parts of development costs etc due to large scale.
What cannot however be covered forever is keeping servers running (replacing parts periodically), technician fees etc.....if you dont pay monthly.
In that case your 75 bucks would run out, servers would crash for good and you're left with no gametime.
Sure I dislike paying monthtly too, but at least I understand the principle that without this payment, the fees to run servers/techs and produce content-patches cannot be covered for more than a small amount of time.
(oh...and private servers are illegal and therefore suck and are process-forum-unworthy.)