I agree totally with you on that point Kaiyn,

 

Just after Acclaim had shut down the last Spellborn server there was a petition like this.

If I remember right the respons from one of the dutch staff was something like:

-  it was a nice thing, but we're gonna let it rest like it is.

- Newer hardware - software has more options and better quality

- We're  no longer spending time / money for Spellborn.

 

 

Now the idea as community would be like we wanna play our beloved game, don't care who runs the server.

 

Publishers don't work for free, they would like to see something in return from running the Spellborn server.

 

If we're able to fund a server to run the game, that would be a different thing,

it would still mean there would be monthly / yearly costs like electricity, internet traffic , domain costs.

In other words, even if we would have the code to run the Spellborn server and database system linked to it,

it would need a bigger group of players donating to keep the system going.

 

I doubt if we would ever come that far.

 

Anyway the petition gives some attention to our beloved game, never bad I would say.

 

Greetings Jan-Willem