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Originally posted by tarakan69
I'm not a believer in the success of pay to play online.
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In some ways I would say you were right! But in other your not take a MMORPG which takes a team of say 20 to 30 to support the game and then you have a 10 to 20 person team making the new updates for it, Who do you think should pay for all of that the DEV? And whos going to pay the huge cost of running the servers (last time i looked a 5gigbit line cost alot).
Support staff in the UK get around £17,000.00 a year so 25 of them would cost £425,000.00 a year.
level makers art people and programers cost up forum £25,000.00 each so 15 of them would cost £375,000.00 a year.
So thats at lest £800,000.00 a year (It would be alot more in real life). Thats not even with the cost of the servers the rent on the office and other tax's
(If you did not know thats $1,282,828.57 US a year).
IMO I feel Microsoft has done a really good job so far online I like there service alot and being BB only has sorted alot of lag problems. About the only thing I don't like is the fact compays that do not wish to use Microsoft servers can not use there own but thats a problem for the devs to sort out.
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