Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
Actually, the game wouldn't have been shut down, if anything it would probably have still made a profit versus keeping it free for a year.

If it didn't shut down during a free year, it wouldn't have shutdown while it was being charged. MMOs that get shutdown very quickly are usually because they're not WoW clones or because they can't compete with established MMOs of 5 years+, which means a new MMO has to compete with some MMOs that have sometimes 4 expansions worth of content which is near impossible without copy/pasting content.
They kept it open because they wanted to fix it for prides sake. If this had been any other MMO from any other company they would have shut this thing down quick. If you think this game would have made profit when they charged at release, your living in a fantasy world.