[MUD-Dev] Criminalize Community Volunteers?

[Matthew Mihaly]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, David Frank wrote:

> Raph talked alot about the costs of doing business and how small the actual
> profit was from a successful MMORPG.  If they had to hire support staff instead
> of relying on volunteers, you could kiss most of that profit goodbye.  But what
> if they simply raised the fee to $20 a month to play the game? (Yeah I
> know...*simply*)

Right. Do you think if GM doubled the cost of all their cars tomorrow,
they would double their profits? Of course not, as everyone would start
buying competing products.

Do you think that if all car companies doubled the cost of their cars
tomorrow, they would double their profits? Of course not, because far
fewer people would buy cars (and, of course, if they collaborated to do
that, they'd be in violation of anti-trust regulations). 

 
--matt




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