Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20190117111544/@comment-35356197-20190223001016

Mugwumps wrote: I think the big cost would be maintaining the server farm. I’m sure that’s expensive to run. So I doubt omp, wttt, or tsm’s would continue, and without those, the game would be fairly uninteresting. Maybe not as expensive as you think. These days a lot of companies don't run their own server farms; they just upload them into the cloud. Cloud services don't come cheap, but the cost is manageable because you avoid a lot of the capital costs and maintenance overhead. And since you pay for bandwidth/CPU time, your monthly bill scales with your userbase. Could be a cost-effective way to wind down a game.