For a lot of these games, and especially any social game company, a passionate base of users isn’t enough to offset the amount they sink into advertising and ru

For a lot of these games, and especially any social game company, a passionate base of users isn’t enough to offset the amount they sink into advertising and running the game. From their perspective it’s just not worth it. Being able to run the games on independent self hosted servers is the only way they could stay alive after their owners decide they’re “not profitable”.