How is this game going to make money and survive?

[Joseph's Piano]

I'm pretty new to FPS - have played Strat games for decades - they also charge a single up-front fee but usually don't need to maintain servers - you just play vs AI or PBEM/TCP with other ppl.

So I'm curious as to how will HLL survive if it has to maintain servers and continue develop? Where is the money coming from, or going to come from???

[Dom]

They print their own money

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

First of all, HLL does not have to maintain servers. Many game publishers do maintain servers for a time after official release, because it's understood that private servers will take time to expand and become available. Right this moment, private servers vastly outnumber those provide by the publisher. They will be maintained as long as the publishers sees the need. I don't know for sure, but I suspect server expense can be totally or partially written off as a business expense. This has been a part of game publisher business practice for decades. It's not new.

[Hotwire]

I imagine they'll keep programming awesome s*** and people will keep paying for the privilege.