As I've always said, the only people to "suffer" from a server going tits up are the players. Admins can walk away, and usually toss up another server in a few mos to try new ideas. Take Zeb/Abyss as a prime example. There are upwards of 10,000 characters created in that database, most of them level 70. That means, people really put a lot of effort into their toons to get where they got. The server went down, came up under a new admin. Went down again, up again (for donations), then down again... now it is up again, but about to go down for maybe the last time.
Why? Because players have this mentality that they can come to a server and call the admin and GMs names, or berate them, or act disrespectful considering the immense effort behind running "a public server". No respect? Accusations? Mass hysteria and panic? Heroic efforts made in /ooc to drive players from the server because one dude doesn't agree with the content?
Server: Dead.
Admins honestly do not need this grief. And, I no longer have any disrespect for those who try and get beaten to death by ungrateful little fuckers who game on their hardware for FREE.
/rant off
WTS DB, free.
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