Quote Originally Posted by Konachibi View Post
This is possibly true given how many free2play mmo's some korean companies create and constantly maintain.

the cost of server mainentance and opening servers is negligeable, the bigges cost is development, but since most games sell expansions the truth is they dont really need monthly costs to profit, of course they get more money, and a predictable income if they can make people pay monthly. Ideally a monthly fee game wouldnt need to charge for expansions, but why should companies not try to profit as much as they can if they can get away with it.

Surely some of you have heard of private servers that run off of donations only? the upkeep costs of servers are comparitively low cost in the process.