What are they doing with the money? Lets make this simple shall we:
- Hampa (and the other admins and developers) have to eat, they have to have a house, they have to pay bills.
- You think servers cost nothing? I have my own dedicated server which is not as powerfull as the Nabi servers (both of them). My server on it's own costs £58 (us$114) per month - the Nabi servers WILL cost more.
- Paying through PayPal or OneBip? They take a slice of the money. OneBip takes over 50% of the money paid!
- More money is needed for development. e.g. The Wii version. A Wii development platform on its own costs at least us$2000 (I dont have the exact figure on hand).
You think that everyone pays money to play Toribash? It is a free game, it costs a lot to run the servers and it costs money for further development.
Advertising is another way to get money. Don't want advertisements in your personal clan server? Buy advertising space and put a blank advert there, or even better, your clan logo!
When I was a developer for Toribash, I saw test "adverts" on floors, the code itself has been there for almost a year! When playing over them, they did not cause any problems, and you only noticed them if you were not focusing on the game!
Last edited by SlainVeteran; Feb 7, 2008 at 05:08 PM.