I haz an idea!!!

[Morpheus]

i got a better idea.
why find a weird bussiness model when you can pay me directly? go ahead!.

Maybe this was a chance when the emu wasnt born or we could not enter megacity yet.

I will explain you the failing of your theory:

a) SoE has no rights anymore (apart from the data on their servers like forums) and just WBIE would be need to be asked. Personally i think that someone talked to them in the first version of the forum and WB didnt answered (c'mon they have more franchises!). Either way, talking to em may put us of the way or just be ignored. Accept seems to be not an option.

b) WB nor SOE would give you the code for the game if you dont pay a lot of greenies $$. They wont give you because you can get it and have all the ways to change into whatever you want and release Forum Online if you want. That's not cool as they couldnt say anything, you just copied code... how to show? huh huh? They would want the greenies just in case you do something not expected.

c) More than a half of the forum members wont pay .. ever. You can constantly see people saying "i didnt know about the game till yesterday" or "is this gonna be free"? That's for a reason... leechness.

d) You should offer to the staff members a good sum as salary to work, noting that % of our "sales" would be for SOE or WB... seeing that they either dont know or dont care about the game. SOE fucked it up.. should they leech our cash? meh.

People would need to do donations or so later if we mount a server (umm far in the future) or someone has to provide one for free with enough capacity, but of course costing for example 200$ (and that's a lot more than i think) between 200 active donators would be 1$ at month. Less than a newspaper.

Thing is gonna be lotta money (buy game rights, NOT matrix rights) or lotta time (redo what is needed to redo).

Either way soon is not the word.