technically frank the rabbit? if your gonna try to rip off a donnie darko character get the name right. I played FFXI for 3 years, i had RDM 75, THF 75, PLD 75, and BLM 75, its a great game, but after awhile i got tired of paying to play it. 13 dollars a month for 3 years adds up to quite alot of money, were talking more then 500 dollars for one game. Thats ridiculous.

That's how MMO devs make their money. You pay for the game, then they get to sit down and do nothing and get paid for a couple of years, because they're getting money from all the subscriptions.

I don't know where all the money of WoW goes into. The few expansions they develop can't be that expensive. The producers must be hella rich.



I mean, I don't know the exact prices, but let's say 10 bucks a month. With 11.5 million active users, that's 115 million dollars A MONTH.

the price to keep those servers up, don't know now much it cost to keep them running, but I'm sure a small chunk is for profit or vice versa.

Dark nailed it. You guys are playing an ONLINE GAME. You think that's cheap?



You guys forget about updates?



You guys forget about patches?



They have to maintain the hardware AND the software. That's a huge job. Not to mention BACKING UP all that data. You are talking about a MASSIVE data store.



I'm sure they have MANY forms of reduntant backup and you have to maintain all of those as well.

was designed for PS2 controllers, I imagined you guys played on PC?



The controls are absolutely horrid with a keyboard and mouse, but workable with a controller.



Whenever I play on PC I plug in a controller