(I'm talking $$$ payment, not ingame stuff)

Not saying this would have been a good idea (it probably would have ended awfully imo)

But the game has been out for 20 years now (holy shit btw). If staff members were paid since 2006, how much better / worse would things look right now?

it would make better staff moderation

would it? I feel like since staff are unpaid, everyone does it for the love of the game, which is pretty good for quality moderation

There's no money in this game to pay anyone other than hampa and one Russian developer which needs a meager salary

Me when I'm in the hypothetical tournament with sirkill and I win

TB next would have been a successful successor and would have brought in > 5,000 players. Unfortunately, there wasnt enough brains to think of how to handle tb next

how different would toribash look today if they hired non diddybluds