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Originally Posted by pupaxx
..So we got a publisher!!! Great news  |
Yes, great news, but I found something that was possibly disturbing to a degree. Oleg said that they were integrating the MP at the request of the publisher (read his post to see exactly what he said). So here is my concern:
In another game where my gaming clan ran several servers, a fee from EA was passed along in the monthly charge for operating the server. It was simply a way for EA to get residual income and the fee was high enough to keep a lot of groups from running their own server. As a clan we operated on donations only but several times some of us had to kick in personal money to keep the servers up for the next month.
What did we get for the monthly fee? Nothing from EA that was positive.
I hated the way EA implemented the fee. It made running servers considerably more expensive, lead to compatibility problems, and actually ended up retarding the growth of the game online.
I am no longer in the business of running servers for a gaming group so maybe my information is a few years old. Things may have changed OR maybe this has become the accepted practice by publishers.
So if there is a fee (and I don't know if there will be one or not so don't flame me) I hope there is at least some "value added" benefit from the fee besides lining the publisher's pocket. I don't mind paying as long as I am getting something in return.
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