Quote Originally Posted by Blissa View Post
$15+ a month times at least a million active players = $15,000,000 per month. And I know it costs no were near that. And lets not forget all of the vanity items people buy plus retainers. I have 8 retainers myself and I pay a $25 a month sub to play the game and I know there are a ton of people out there with all 8 retainers. Add it up!
I believe a while back I heard that World of Warcraft cost $100,000 to run for a single day, and that game has way, way, waaaay more servers than this game. If WoW for how enormous it is costs that much to run for a day, take a small fraction of that for what it costs SE to run this much smaller game, and compare that to how much they get in a month.

This game is like printing money for them, and just like Blizzard, I don't see hardly any of it going back into the game. It's fine to make a profit, but changing enormous parts of the fundamental game just to have to get around doing any actual work is pretty messed up.