I'm not opposed to spending money, but...

[czaper2]

the forum search doesnt let me find the old posts somehow and i cant give you a link

From what the mods said, there is a good chance 99% of the posts on W7 were purged and will never been seen again. So that's pretty damn sad if true.

[burgingham]

to be fair, i remember seeing either of them talk about it, particularly mentioning "subscription-base" at least 3 times on the forums, and more in irc. the forum search doesnt let me find the old posts somehow and i cant give you a link, but not only devs were mentioning but also quite a few players encouraged them to go for it.

We’re going to monetize Haven in one way or another, we haven’t really announced or decided on the exact forms of it, but it will be monetized in one way or another.

Locking this. Please do not make any duplicate threads about the topic and stick to the one in C&I