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Originally Posted by Shaun
The bandwidth used would jump like crazy.
From my business experience and educational background in Business Economics, I personally have come to the conclusion that GraalOnline's largest profitability would come from licensing out server software. Users would rent the software, but have to host the server themself. The newly server owners would then host their servers as they see fit, and charge players what they see fit to access the servers. There would be no central account records, but rather each server would have it's own. Think back to the old GServer days. Update the technology, and license it.
The user's GServer would run a check every hour or whatever with the central Graal server to check to see if the license is still valid. GraalOnline could charge $500/year on this and I'm sure it'd sell. Why? People could license the software for a year at $500, then charge players to make up the cost. It would also advertise the game itself, as each server would advertise itself as it's own game.
Really, I think that's the best step for Graal to go, from a business/economical perspective.
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EL OH EL.
Seriously do you think before you type or what?
If they license out the server/game they can pretty much kiss Graal goodbye. For one, they lose 99% of their money since players would rather go to a server that is cheaper/free. Two, they can't control the content that is put on these server using their product, so that could cause problems/legal issues. Giving out the server software is a security risk. What's to stop a hacker from modifying the server software to connect to someone ELSE's server? Nothing really.
Even if it were capable of working, $500 is a measily amount of money to have to pay for a license, and I'm guessing since you said "rent" that this wouldn't be a one time fee, which is even worse. It would be better to sell a more expensive one time fee than to charge a cheaper rental fee. Nobody wants to make a popular game that outsells Graal just to have them turn around and say, "hey we are cancelling your license rental, no more game for you!". It's all or nothing when it comes to licenses like that.