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<font size=3>At 06:44 PM 10/6/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>We were thinking of following the
WOW model but maybe not going to be the case. How are the sites that give
the servers for free, make enough to pay the bills? I have looked through
a couple of sites and they are asking for donations? Is this it? I am new
to this and COD is the only game I play online.
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PCGamer did a review on "The Guild" just before it came
out<br>
and interviewed them, and they asked them the same exact<br>
question. "How is it you have a WOW model, but $0 monthly
fee<br>
and still make money".<br><br>
Google for the review, or borrow a copy from someone. Was<br>
in July I believe.<br><br>
The key was their model was written to be CPU efficient, and<br>
some complexities that require WOW to have a large customer<br>
service staff, were eliminated/reduced so this was not
required.<br><br>
The more efficient use of CPU time, reduced the cost of their<br>
servers. Keeping their costs very low, their business model<br>
is they will make additional revenue on add-on's and other<br>
games.<br><br>
Interesting interview. Try to catch it.<br><br>
Mark<br><br>
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Mark J.
DeFilippis
defilm@acm.org<br>
defilm@ieee.org<br><br>
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