Yeah but even at $360m, $500k every month is operating costs for the server only, and doesnt include the business’ other expenses. That’s a big chunk of profit going to operating costs.
If the business had no other expenses then yeah, they could keep the servers up for 60 years. But more expenses lowers that and the look to get a subscription model or new game becomes more attractive to a company.
Ive seen articles that also say they’ve paid $500k on monthly server fees (ie total not per month) a couple times, so it could also just be a game of telephone messing up the info
Yeah but even at $360m, $500k every month is operating costs for the server only, and doesnt include the business’ other expenses. That’s a big chunk of profit going to operating costs.
If the business had no other expenses then yeah, they could keep the servers up for 60 years. But more expenses lowers that and the look to get a subscription model or new game becomes more attractive to a company.
Ive seen articles that also say they’ve paid $500k on monthly server fees (ie total not per month) a couple times, so it could also just be a game of telephone messing up the info