"Due to the increased costs of running the EverQuest game service, we will be increasing our subscription rates in June."
This is mostly BS, the hardware status hasn't changed in three years, which should have been paid for by now! The number of personal required to maintain the game system has decreased, which equates to savings from the original. There cost of electricity has not risen that much, prolly pennies on the dollar! So, what is left? The number of users using the system? To be honest, the number of users may have went down in the last few months, but that means the number of users NOW are about the same as it was after the first 3 months started! In other words, the number of users are about the same as at then beginning.
What has changed from the beginning to now!?!? :) I think I know... SOE's BS forum service, we are all paying for that crappy board of thiers. Yes, we are paying so peeps can go to SOE's forum and butt-kiss Forum moderators/gm/dev, or so they can whine about this or that, so they can be grammer *****, flame, beg for this to nerfed, etc... We got to pay for all of that, and what do we get in return for SOE's forum, sure as hell aint good information about EQoA!!! Go there! Where are the walkthrus for quest help! Where are the info on good XP spots? Where is the data on MC, Crafting, ANYTHING!?!? WHERE? I tell ye where, on ALLA, HODSTOCK, and other sites!
I'm sure there must be some other hidden factors, beside outright greed, I just can't see it.
Well, there ye go... we are paying more... for SOE's CRAPPY forum service!