I know that nothing has been stated as of yet from Dice that this will be a pay-to-play game, but it's still early and no one knows what the final word will be by the time the game goes gold.
I have had those same concerns as well because most role playing games that have a persistant world requires constant running servers to maintain them which are usually kept by the people who created the game.
The fact that this game retains an individuals ranking means that those stats must be constantly kept and updated. I don't know how that can be done by those who set themselves up as servers to play for a certain length of time then quit.
It could be that Dice will provide those servers without charge, but I highly doubt that.
By the way, how-do everybody, it's -WOODY- ( I lost my minus's "- -" )
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