I also want to add that we just have April 2008... the year gives us other 8 month to hope for new subscribbers.

This of course depends on the devs for UOKR. Currently there are no updates since about 3 month, and this is not very "new player" or "current player" friendly.

Ok so UO has about 75k players

75k * 14 US Dollars = 1.050.000$ / month (not counting any other stuff for now such as 7th character slot or mondain's legacy upgrade)
- Costs for all Server monthly probably something about 15.000 - 20.000$ for all shards
- I have no clue how big the UO team is, but let's just say 300.000$ for the DEV team
- + any other costs (hardware upgrades for example or bills etc.), 10.000$

330.000$, let's just round it up to 350.000$ monthly costs, that leaves about 700.000$ profit

with just 50k subscribbers there would be a profit of 350.000$
with just 40k subscribbers there would be a profit of 210.000$
with just 30k subscribbers there would be a profit of 70.000$ (time to kick or replace some devs)
with just 25k subscribbers there would be a profit of 0$ (if nothing changes anytime soon we will have to quit the project)
with just 20k subscribber there would be a profit of -70.000$ (just forget it, let's move on and try something else, UO is history)

Of course the costs are nowhere near being accurate, but i'm just trying to explain that the deadline should be arround the 10-30k subscribber mark.