When the rest of the SFC2.NET team faded away, I was never told that I needed to pay any type of fee to keep it alive, plus I never received a bill anyway...lol.
Over the life of this game, I have given to CW/SFC2.net and D.NET over $1,000 in cash donations to keep this game going. I believe I've paid my share
I'm sure others have paid or contributed a lot more.
Frey, the database has the usernames and their emails from a lot of the OLD SFC players. When the right time comes to try to jump start SFC for the CE version, maybe a mass email from the user database would be a good way to try and grab up some of the old players?