Quote Originally Posted by EaglePhoenix View Post
If one considers the offical servers being corrupt..These guys here are holy in comparance to P-servers in general..
A company is actually bound with rules and has actual employee's. A private server is usually not bound to any rules, as they are (commonly) not legal in the first place - as such, there is absolutely no control to where the money goes. At least here you know it is going to be expensive and you know exactly what you're getting into.

If employee's disagree in a company, there are but a few ways out: come to an agreement, if not you either leave or get fired.
If a p-server team gets into a disagreement, it is followed by a sad show on the forums - the game will directly suffer and eventually either just close or just be divided especially if one of the leaving/involved guys is the one with the most knowledge about the server.

Call me biased, but i've seen it all. Nothing looks more unprofessional than developers fighting it out on their own forums for all to read.


Can it be good? Surely, but you can count those on one hand.. not per game, but all P-servers from all games together. Feel free to gamble.
This.

There is much to be said for playing an official server. That corporate backing is a big plus - even if it is impossible to get them to do something to fix their game. With that in place you can be assured that the game is not gonna disappear because of an internal squabble or because paypal cut them off due to too many chargebacks. That is not an inconsiderable pro in favor of officially-published games. You just have to remember that to get any kind of action out of them you have to follow their procedures.

Just don't expect to play for free. And when things get tight due to low playership, costs will go up as the game company does its damnedest to stay out of the red. And most of us that have beenn around for a few years know what kinds of lengths desperation will drive a game publisher to do.