And From a player perspective, is there a reason we're seeing less private servers these days?

Well, when you boil it down, it always comes back to follow the money.

And there's been a ton of different approaches to how you monetize a multiplayer game.

look at call of duty in your example here you could say similar things to games like fortnite battlefield etc but these game studios have what we call a long tail of costs so you may have a single purchase of the game you know games like fortnite you may have not even had that but you have a single purchase of the game where the player may play for years And so you cannot ration that single purchase to cover your server costs of that user.

And these studios have to contend with, you know, their server costs are going to be anywhere between 10 to 25 cents per monthly active user.

And if you're doing it after a $60 game, that's a pretty good deal.

You've got years to spare, sort of.

And do you have tools or checks in place to see what people are running on these servers or is it a black hole?