/Agreed. L does what he does out of love, but that doesn't mean we should mooch off him. Bandwidth costs. Assume L is shelling out about $400 a month for the bandwidth and another $50 for hosting fees. (These numbers are culled from various past posts and a bit of research from publicly available information) So that works out to $450 PER MONTH (Five thousand, four hundreddollars per year) that he is shelling out so we can login and.....Right. Ask for more stuff.
See, that was the monetary side. The development team, the GM team, the writing team, the people that work behind the scenes to make Layo a vibrant and special world do so because they want to. No one gets paid a dime. No one profits, other than to say they helped build something cool. Meanwhile, the players take pot shots at them because of perceived slights, petty bickering and the like. And they smile, and they help. And they do it for free. I have played many, many online games. Currently, I only play on Layo. When I quit my last MMOG, I put the money I was paying them to Layo. Why not? It was money I spent on entertainment. I am not saying everyone should contribute gobs of cash. Some people don't have it. Been there, done that, have the stamps to prove it. But those of us that do have the cash, those of us that have stable jobs, live at home but work, get an allowance, those of use that can easily part with 10 US dollars (do your own exchange) should. No one knows if you do or don't donate unless you want to tell people.
If you can't, you can't. If you can, you should.
