You realize that's about what Blizzard spends per minute to run one of their servers, right?Originally Posted by Neveragain
Please tell me you don't think Stillfront is paying $1200 a month for servers.
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You realize that's about what Blizzard spends per minute to run one of their servers, right?
Please tell me you don't think Stillfront is paying $1200 a month for servers.
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Private servers aren't run by Blizzard and your math is terrible.
$1200 per minute also comes out to $51,840,000 per month. To run 1 WoW server.
Last edited by Methais; 11-02-2018 at 11:58 AM.
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Blizzard currently has roughly 30 million active WOW subscribers if you go by the newest leaked information. I'm not accounting for Stillfronts other projects, just Gemstone. Gemstone could run on that private server cost, easy.
Just admit to yourself that you're paying for special attention.
Last edited by Neveragain; 11-02-2018 at 10:17 AM.
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Like I said, IIRC. Wyrom is heavily involved in DR (maybe moreso in previous iterations) and I remember him saying something similar in a linked official thread.
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No way in the world is Stillfront paying any where close to 1200 a month to run the GS server.
Last edited by Neovik1; 11-02-2018 at 11:38 AM.
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The closest facsimile I was able to find was SWGEmu (the most popular Star Wars Galaxies server). They make all of their costs public because they run on donations. They have an average of 1500 users online at any given time, or did when I got their numbers, and their server costs were around $1700 a month all in, including backups, redundancies, maintenance and the like. Gemstone is very likely less intensive than the code for SWG, as SWG was notoriously a bandwidth hog with inefficient code, not to mention, that server has triple the average simultaneous logins.
Last edited by Stumplicker; 11-02-2018 at 12:06 PM.
You believe Blizzard is paying 600 million a year to run one server? Are you this fucking stupid for real?
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MUDs can be and often are run out of people's basements.
You had better pay your guild dues before you forget. You are 113 months behind.
I looked at renting a server to run a mud once, they wanted like 50 a month.
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Highway robbery. You can run a mud for 20-30 people on a basic cable internet connection from your home computer without either the computer or your internet connection breaking a sweat. They even have ports of the most popular codebases where you can just run them from windows now too.
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