It’s been a long time since we last heard from Side Quest, last September when we noticed that the servers had gone dark with no notice from Fractal Entertainment. If you’ve been jonesing for your side-scrolling fix since then, you’ll be happy to know that the servers are up and running and the game is available in its full glory.
With one caveat. While Fractal Entertainment has been able to find cheap hosting, there won’t be any development on the game for the time being. In addition to expected random downtimes, the item mall has been disabled. Regardless, the game is available to play for those interested.
(Source: Side Quest)
MMO Fallout 
Possible financial solutions:
– Find a competent (not big) publisher (bonus: foreign localization?)
– Port SideQuest to mobile and keep it F2P (under that same publisher)