Originally posted by Imperator Fyron: SE4 Gold (just gold) hit the $500,000 mark about a year ago, actually. If it was in retail, MM would have gotten something like 5% (or less) of that. I do not know how much they get with the current Online model, but it is much, much higher.
Which may be one reason they can afford to pay closer attention to the nuts like us who play the game and pester them with advice and comments.