You can also just pay 23% out of the current premium donation right?
Why would you do it? If you set the price at a certain level, for a reason, taking into account everything that in the end, makes that price up, why would you then lower server's income with such a move? After all, people seem to forget, that it is an old, dying game. Creators host servers for all these people, need to work on these servers(that requires
skills and
a lot of time(that duo is nowadays expensive as f**k)), as there is no obvious bug-free distro to download&host, then they put it on machines that can handle hundreds of players, just to make your game smooth and pleasant. All that costs money, you know? Player base fluctuates, so you can never predict what you earn and if it covers your time and expenses.
It is also quite funny how people consider this server as expensive to play, meanwile on some other OT where another EDITION starts(wtf is that? I still don't know, I think it is a new word for resetting whatever you achieved every 1 month), you will either spend same or more buying premium scroll/tune/whatever for 15 days(pretty standard thing nowadays lol) for half tibiantis' premium.