Meh... they'll probably have a free beta period for a little while... that will give us a chance to see if its good enough.

But even though I used to play RO on a private server... I'll play RO 2 Pay2Play if its good.

Besides... most private servers for games... SUCK for a very very long time... only a few years after the game comes out... do any half way decent private servers manage to get out there.

On the other hand, RO had it's server code leaked... which gave the private server community something to base their code on... and a few smart individuals came up with Athena which is used now by most private RO servers.

Obviously gravity wont let RO2 leak... even so, you never know how similar the server code could be to the old RO.

aaanywho... regardless, don't count on decent private servers for a WHILE after the game has been out...