Again, MCSG trying to get money
Did you read this paragraph:
What is this all about? We recently made a huge investment into our US location by purchasing our own hardware for our community! With all of the great things we can do with our new servers, we want to take it 1 step further by adding Fiber-optics to our proxies. Fiber can easily handle our large demand of players & also take the punches better from script kiddies with large DDoS attacks. With this change, we can expect to deliver a better uninterrupted network as we can handle the attacks while supporting a fast connection to our player base in-game and web. We created this exclusive rank to help us pick up the costs.
Bottom line is, if we as players want a solid server to play on, then server upgrades are needed. I'm not even going to post in full details about payment costs and the likes of running a server this large. By your one comment, I managed to facepalm harder than I've ever facepalmed before.
Edit: I also forgot when the first time they tried to get money was? By just existing? We'd have no online multiplayer servers in Minecraft than, except the very small ran-of-modem ones. Maybe the occasional millionaire would roll around and run a server for free for a short amount of time before he realized how much money he was putting into it a month.
