Just wondering.....

[Rattle Squirrell]

I have always wondered just how much this server has made over the years in donations.....

do you guys frequently donate?

I'm posting this in RnF just as a precaution because I know how people can get fired up quickly and would rather not have it moved here anyways lol.

[Jfertal]

I heard BDA doesnt donate.

[dafier]

I know this is RnF, but I highly doubt staff is going to share their books. I believe that would provide one thing, scrutiny.

Who the hell wants that?

[Rattle Squirrell]

I heard BDA doesnt donate.

hahaha

[Rattle Squirrell]

I know this is RnF, but I highly doubt staff is going to share their books. I believe that would provide one thing, scrutiny.

Who the hell wants that?

I was just curious. I know that just scrolling around some of the posts lately i see one thing VERY commonly, and that is guides or GM's coming in and saying "IT'S FREE, WE DON"T WORK FOR YOU"

I get that, and essentially this is a free server. I just wanted to see just how much in donations was being made and VS the ammount needed to run the server.

Again, just curious.

[arsenalpow]

If the server was lucrative then Rogean wouldn't need to keep an actual job and could employ his server staff so they too wouldn't have to work a real job.

[Rattle Squirrell]

I don't know that this server is supposed to replace an actual job lol. I was just wondering what kind of $$ it brought in. I know some of the Ultima Online servers were bringing in thousands a month in donations.

[Secrets]

Any donations here probably aren't much at all. You'd get more money streaming P99 as a job than actually running a server of it.

Plus the donations they do get are put back to the server hosting costs.

[dafier]

I was just curious. I know that just scrolling around some of the posts lately i see one thing VERY commonly, and that is guides or GM's coming in and saying "IT'S FREE, WE DON"T WORK FOR YOU"

I get that, and essentially this is a free server. I just wanted to see just how much in donations was being made and VS the ammount needed to run the server.

Again, just curious.

I may have appeared to come off the wrong way there. I was just making statements. No harm meant. I understand you are curious. Cheers mate.

[Rattle Squirrell]

Going back and thinking about it those UO servers that were making the big bucks were also selling things such as mounts and things for in game use. I bet that is were alot of the money came from.

[Rattle Squirrell]

Any donations here probably aren't much at all. You'd get more money streaming P99 as a job than actually running a server of it.

Plus the donations they do get are put back to the server hosting costs.

What does it cost to run one of those things? I bet it's not cheap.

[dafier]

HAHA! Micro transactions were used back then....yep. Nothing new.

[dafier]

What does it cost to run one of those things? I bet it's not cheap.

Google what a T3 cost per month for a business or whatever else they have out now. Maybe P99 is getting more than just a T3... I am not sure

[JboxCSU]

1 billion fafillion gajillion shab-ab-dood-illion yen

[Rattle Squirrell]

i know when I was playing the only way to get the ethereal mount that was bound to bag was to buy it. I of course sprung the 20 to get it.

wondering how many other of the 200+ players that were on there did it.....and on multiple chars?

UO free shard was cleaning house lol

[dafier]

d2legit.com

Woah....what a site back in the day. All those Merka bucks going to Korea. WOOO!

[Rattle Squirrell]

This wasn't thru an outsourced website. There was a vendor near the bank in Britain that you bought the mount with in game currency you paid for thru the emulators website.

[Verath]

Well, if they don't pay taxes and say 10% of the server pop donates $10 dollars a month on top of unemployment, section 8 housing and food stamps they could easily clear 60k a year.

Better than flipping burgers.

I can't find any public tax records in association with P99, so I can only assume that they report the income generated from the server.

[Spyder73]

Well, if they don't pay taxes and say 10% of the server pop donates $10 dollars a month on top of unemployment, section 8 housing and food stamps they could easily clear 60k a year.

Better than flipping burgers.

I can't find any public tax records in association with P99, so I can only assume that they report the income generated from the server.

The server doesn't make any profit and actually loses money every year from what I have been told by people who have been around a long time.

With that said, there are a lot of ways to not earn a profit - $10,000 business trips to cancun, $700 diners, $1,000 for a hammer, $25 for a screw, that type of thing.

Honestly I bet they make nothing from the server unless Rogean = Platlord and he is making that $150 CoF money

[Rattle Squirrell]

The server doesn't make any profit and actually loses money every year from what I have been told by people who have been around a long time.

With that said, there are a lot of ways to not earn a profit - $10,000 business trips to cancun, $700 diners, $1,000 for a hammer, $25 for a screw, that type of thing.

Honestly I bet they make nothing from the server unless Rogean = Platlord and he is making that $150 CoF money

I bet they don't......but I bet it's terribly tempting. Having a community that has been loyal for years that would pay good money just for items or information lol.

I give them kudos if they are staying honest.

[Fame]

Honesty in modern america nerd herds... LOL

[fiveeauxfour]

If the server was lucrative then Rogean wouldn't need to keep an actual job and could employ his server staff so they too wouldn't have to work a real job.

rogean makes enough money to play cs:go all day =P

[Kushie]

The biggest server cost is hosting this website. When Swish posts 3,000 times a day, mailer@eqemulator.net and Amazon SES have to go into overdrive.

[Kekephee]

I'm posting this in RnF just as a precaution because I know how people can get fired up quickly

WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO MEAN YOU PIECE OF SHIT

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

A periodic topic on the forums, OP. Estimates range from 50k-90k per year, after expenses and overhead. Starting 16 year old elf sim emulators is very lucrative and basically turnkey. There was a feature on it in The Robb Report a few years ago. Apparently the community is quite small, and most of the serious operators (including the people who run p99) run multiple game emulators and pull in a tidy 6 figure income.

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