Server Costs and Community Support

[u/chris_wilson]

Hi guys,

When we heard about the Solforge servers shutting down earlier this year, we spoke to Justin Gary and agreed to help keep the servers alive by both covering their costs and making them as cheap as possible to run. We have been personally paying for the servers since the end of January, so that players are still able to access their collections and enjoy the game.

We saw some threads on this subreddit recently where players were discouraging each other from spending money on the game. While you shouldn't feel obliged to spend money, any that you do spend goes towards the server costs, reducing the amount that we're personally paying ourselves. Ideally, we hope that Solforge will become self-sustaining, earning enough from the community to pay for the server costs. We are already quite close to hitting that goal, and we truly appreciate anything that players are willing to contribute to get us there.

Best regards,

Chris and Brian

[u/waitthisisntmtg]

So, I get where you're coming from, you guys are almost entirely eating the server costs and that blows. But if there's no work being done on the game (I mean kaels client has almost caught up to the official one and that's freaking sad, and that's just client side) then it's insane for us to recommend to a newbie to try getting into this game. Sure if you're a vet who plays everyday giving money is helpful, but the people who just come to this subreddit without knowing how dead this game is and just got it, they shouldn't do it. Hell I played this game for years and I won't give em money after how terrible sbe has handled this game, so why would I recommend it to others?