People 'donate' to keep the server alive. Paying for items that improve their character, but probably not items that affect power. Pay to win means what it says. Look at Good Game Empire if you want to see a pay to win game, that, btw, makes millions and millions of dollars every month by selling virtual currency.

If jewels are to be held on the website for when you want to use them, similar to how an exchange would, and then you could withdraw them as well. This would create an entire economy based on that currency. When people can farm a mob for an item that is valuable and then sell it for something that they can turn into dollars, they will. This is a thing that already happens in thousands of games, but one of the most difficult things is deciding who goes first. This can introduce things like escrow to the game. Increasing their userbase because people can literally make money by playing the game.

I suspect, their pserver is not the only one they are hoping will use this. There are hundreds of admins of pservers that frequent ElitePVPers. I personally do use it as well. This is my element, so, I'll be trying out the game when I have more time.

The bottom line is that I am 100% confident in the ability of this project to work if the people behind it are committed and intelligent. This project has been on my mind since long before they posted, but I have enough difficulty setting up solo-mining or compiling a wallet that I am not prepared to put it into action.

This project might be perfect.

Remember, Vanilla WoW servers were pulling in so much money that Blizzard met with the admins after closing it and considered opening one of their own.
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20743584206


You'd be amazed at how many people are willing to pay to play the game they loved years ago, even if the game is mostly free.