maybe its true that keeping a mmorpg online is very expensive, but paying a quarter of the price that people are paying now would probably be enough. First you pay the game, then you pay lots of money for gamecards and after that you will pay even more because of all the expansion versions that come up next, wich will mean that you even have to buy even more gamecards. If a game would be big and various from the beginning, there wouldn't come any expansions. I think mmorpg is way overrated and expensive