I maintain my stance that EVM is one of the worst developments to ESF's history. It further fragments the already small ESF playerbase. Although it does "get rid of" some of the newbs in the legitimate servers, when there are so few to begin with, we end up having to play in them.
I don't really see why some people like EVM, anyway--the majority of players don't "play," they just kiblob each other for power or go after the dragonballs until they reach maximum transformation, then repeatedly spam until they get bored. EVM blows. :/
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In any case, you'd have to ask Masta, but if people donated money for the ESFORCES.com servers to be run, I don't think he'd have a problem making them stay up.