[CrazEpharmacist]

The servers are STILL up. Smedly's words: "no one plays the game anymore." So why are the servers still up if they're not making money? Because it probably costs little to nothing to keep them up. There's literally no reason not to make PS1 F2P. Smedly said "no time soon" which to me means it's happening, just not any time soon. They probably don't want to risk taking any steam away from PS2 so the logical choice would be to release it after PS2 has been out for some time.