Reality has to set in at some point.
This is a retired game being brought back to life. Once the costs are known for support (much of that work may be done by volunteers - GM's and such), hosting and associated costs - likely it could be done by a 3rd party vendor fairly cheap and a minimal staff for accounting and management. Once these are reached then you know what to price it at to run a small profit monthly - I would then take this profit and sink it into CoH 1.5 and possibly form a partnership with the APR team.
Why reinvent the wheel? If the team running the old game has support staff, hosting set up and accounting in place - why would you want to absorb those costs again?
Making enough money to run the game, pay some people and provide for future development would be the key. Alas, we don't know the deal reached - maybe the Classic game is required to be a seperate entity. I would have to seriously look at my finances to run something like this. I know how much my wife and I both make and to retire early from a good job to move to another uncertan job would have to at least equal what I make now.
It would come down to how does the game start?
Is NCSoft willing to fund the restart with an immediate repay as soon as possible? Would it require a business loan? I don't fancy taking a loan against my 401k to fund the game unless I could run a business plan project costs versus return. If the ROI was under say 3 years - fair enough - otherwise it would be a tough sell.
