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Originally Posted by hinch
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I'm posting here because I don't want to necro the other thread. It hadn't been replied to for a few days.
You and I both have the same train of thought. We've both put a lot of effort into our communities (yours more so than mine, as we had long period of absence).
The fact of the matter is that people would perceive a SWGEmu hosted server as
the server to play on. All of you had valid points: just because a server is hosted by the developers doesn't mean that it would be the best. Not to mention the sheer volume of people signing up and causing bandwith issues.
So let's suppose that they did host a server and they can handle their huge influx of users. So where does that leave us? While Euro-Chimaera may have not have to pay that much for servers due to their datacenter connections, I however, would be paying a good amount of my earned money. We'd be running at a super loss (as we're already operating at a loss, because we obviously can't gain a profit from this).
I mean, look at the donations they get now. If they had an actual server to maintain, I'm sure they'd get a very generous sum of donations. Again, that leaves us with a smaller playerbase that may or may not donate.
And that's just the money aspect of it!
You've already mentioned in that thread that an official server would surely be more up to date and better coded than any of ours would be. Who's going to play on a server that's outdated and barely populated?
Nobody.