@davidgerard god I scrolled back up and looked at “This isn’t because each player is particularly expensive to support. The total cost has increased because so many people are playing, and we have taken out a bank loan to help keep the demo running.” again and like, motherfucker

each player isn’t particularly expensive, but the total cost has increased because of the number of players

like assuming you know nothing about the horrid economics of LLMs (which is the only way this might maybe fool you): did they expect us not to pull out a calculator and do the easy numbers? what in the fuck

pretty much the only thing that changes the cold economics of this thing for these fuckers is if they get a kagi-style sweetheart deal on a bundle of grok tokens, and I strongly suspect they’re nowhere near high-profile enough for musky boi to waste money on that