Quote Originally Posted by rina_inverse View Post
making it free server pretty much giving all of your trade secret to the public
will you do that?
That's true. But at that point, with the servers down, they will no longer be making any money off the game. So why would they care?

It's like what id has done with Wolfenstein 3D. The game no longer generates revenue for them, so they made it open source. You can download the source code for the game and do whatever you want with it now.