Quote Originally Posted by Kitya View Post
As far as I'm aware, that's how it works for all sub games. The $15 a month covers the server upkeep, minor/major game fixes as well as major patch content. But, the expansions cost extra because they're a much larger amount of content all at once.
Hmm… WoW charges $15/month, $180/year. That's more than enough to rent a bit of the server and to get 2 extra games per year. To run a MMO could be expensive 10 years ago, now with the cost of one old server at the time they buy a server dozens of times more powerful. And the connections are even cheaper. Not that it really matters because I monitored the FF XIV bandwidth and it is 5MB… per hour. Less than 60Kbps per user.