Just wondering.....

[Rattle Squirrell]

Originally Posted by Secrets [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by Rattle Squirrell [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by Verath [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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]

Originally Posted by Spyder73 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.