Originally posted by Kiirozu 黄色:

Dude.. just rent or host yourself. Renting is fairly cheap if you can't host yourself.

Originally posted by Kernel_Picnic:

Guild Wars / Guild Wars 2 and so many others run by real companies.

Guild Wars is not the same kind of game as Vaheim, the comparison is not viable. GW is a mmo, Valheim isn't. This is a COOP PvE game with a recommendation of five people. It's comparable to minecraft which offers rented servers (realms) to it's customers.

Indeed, GW is a game with a larger scope. It was also built by a small studio of people who actually knew what they were doing and thus they found a way to pay for hosting servers for their enormously more complex software.

There are three reasons Iron Gate doesn't host their own servers:

1. They're too cheap.
2. They don't care about the quality of life of their community.
3. They don't know how to do it.

Anything else is just a sad fanboi excuse.