First off...Civony/Evony came out of the gate with a very expensive banner ad campaign. Where did this ad money come from in the first place?? It certainly wasn't from players, since, at the time the campaign was launched, there was only 1 server. This means their parent company certainly has the funds to pay for it, or they got a sweet deal from GoogleAds. Or perhaps...both.
Second, all those nice things you listed: "To run a game like this, you have to code the game, test the game, revise the game, update the game, patch the game, monitor the game, provide some form of customer service, host multiple servers, etc."...Haha...what a laugh. WHAT "customer service"? WHAT "monitoring"? The only real "patches" so far have been designed to separate player from money.
In NO other game like this has the extra's one can pay for been able to "enhance" the paying players game to the point of being an ubergod compared to the free players. The "enhancements" should do just that...enhance...not boost a player to the point of being unbeatable.
U noć idem, sjećanje jedan trn od zalosne, dalje prema smrti.
Into the night I go, memory a thorn of sorrow, onward toward death.
Death feels like the butterfly, can't escape the scarred lie
~Skinny Puppy: haZe~
So, drifting through the dark
The sympathy of night's mercy inside my heart
Is your life the same? Do ghosts cry tears? Do they feel years?
As time just goes on and on and on
~TransSiberian Orchestra: Back to a Reason, pt2~
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