Abo-Payment ist really not because of the Server Hosting it is only a trick to get money of dump people with to much of it. and believe me.. there are so many dump people out there ... thats why it works...

Because $50 then a monthly sub is accepted as standard practice for an MMO. It also makes the most money.

You're right that it doesn't cost that much to run an MMO. ArenaNet have ran GW1 off of purely how much money they made off preorders for the original game. That's not including development however. Add in the expansions and it's been covered. With production and patches, Anet said they can run GW1 until 2040-ish if costs remain the same as they are now, before they lose money from the original box copies that were sold (all expansions, at launch of each.) That's a lot of profit. Guildwars 2 preorders have funded all development thus far, and then some. Anything other than preorders (sales after launch, and gem store) have all been "profit" as per the NCsoft meetings/reports.

Up until 2011 (when the interview was) Blizzard stated that the sales of vanilla WoW was enough to cover all of the server costs, and development costs for both expansions (BC, WOTLK) at the time. That's not including Subs, just box copies. Then they included a bunch of PR speak that said the money wasn't just pure profit though, but to make a better experience for players. Other than servers, patches, and new content/features, I don't see how it benefited players at all... Anyhow, they said it'd be enough money to last them a while as well. Which means, including each expansion at $40 thus far, the sub fee for WoW has been pure profit as well.

SEO also said similar things about EQ and EQ2. They were even more open about it, saying the sub fee has always been about profit and providing /more/ servers for an expanding player base. Which made sense, in 1999 and early 2000 when servers/bandwidth cost a lot. Which is why they removed their sub fee and both are now F2P titles.

Basically, sub fees make more money because people will pay them. They aren't "required" but they make money. A lot of it.

Sub >>>>>>>> f2p.
Also, 14€ a month is definitely not "a butt load of money"

ESO, however, is just terrible.

It's not the best mmorpg in the world but It's not a bad game. I played almost 1000 hours and I still enjoyed every moment of it. Just ignore those trolls

Heh, okay I admit that was out of the blue and totally unrelated, but it was near when they released the game, and they didn't even bother fixing many things. But beta isn't suppose to be flawless, so my fault ><

MMO betaz are 100% finished gaimez and they are used for promoting the gaime.

Nope! It's Zenimax! :)

But it's a HORSE! What don't you get about that?! It's so... epicz0rs!!one11!!

u wot m8

Mounts are essential to MMOs to get around the place, they should be acquired quickly after the starting zone.

You're joking, right? This store-bought computer I bought has 1TB of hard drive space, only!

Oh, wait...

What? I'm not playing TESO. I'm playing Archage, which is f2p.