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"Magnate" <not@receiving.here> wrote in message 
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> "CymTyr" <cymtyr@nospam.com> wrote
>> "Mark Morrison" <blank@aol.com> wrote in message
>>> It all comes down to value for money - Hellgate was screwed from the
>>> start, as what you got for your money was fine, but they immediately
>>> gave a lot of that stuff for free to the non-subs.
>>
>> This was indeed a huge problem. Some of us bought lifetime subs for HG:L 
>> to support the fledgling company only to find that increasingly with each 
>> patch more and more of our "goodies" were being given away for free to 
>> entice more people to sub.  I paid $150 for lifetime sub and got exactly 
>>  >one< content update the whole time.  So yes, I'm pretty upset with Roper 
>> atm.
>
> Ow. So there was no moneyback clause in the lifetime sub if, for instance, 
> the company went under in less than 12 months?
>
>>> I'd imagine Blizzard will put more thought into it, but I can't see
>>> what they'd offer for Diablo 2, for subscribers - bigger stash ?
>>>
>>> I can only assume that they're testing the waters for Diablo 3
>>> pay-for-online-play.
>>
>> I think they're being a bit greedy with this one.  They're releasing 
>> Starcraft 2 as 3 separate games supposedly to better tell the story (yeah
>
> I didn't know this - very interesting. I can't see anyone being excited 
> about that - except perhaps the pirates.
>
>> tell us another), and they're probably turning b.net into p2p.  This 
>> amounts to increased revenue for them, as if they don't get enough from 
>> WoW.
>>
>> I'm actually pretty disappointed in Blizzard.  I'm still getting D3 but I 
>> won't pay to play online.  As far as the two separate mmos they are 
>> developing, if one of them is related to Diablo I'll look into it, but 
>> I'm not getting it just because it's a Blizzard product.
>>
>> Saying that, the one thing they do do for you is if you have prepaid time 
>> on your WoW account you can call and have them suspend it till you come 
>> back to WoW.  So some things they will do for you...
>
> That made me think - are there any MMOs which operate on a "pay as you go" 
> model rather than a monthly sub? The only reason I don't play MMOs is 
> because my gaming is very irregular: one month I'll do a hundred hours of 
> gaming, but then the following month I'll do five or six hours, and some 
> months none at all. It all depends what's happening in RL, and I don't set 
> aside particular times for gaming, so paying a monthly fee doesn't work 
> for me at all. But I'd consider paying for a set number of hours, or a set 
> number playing days in a 6- or 12-month period. Then it wouldn't matter if 
> I went three months without playing, it wouldn't cost me anything.
>
> Just curious to see whether anyone knows of such MMOs.
>
> CC

Some common free games with item shops can be found at:
* http://us.91.com/ (most known game: Conquer Online)
* http://www.gpotato.com/ (most known game: Flyff)
* http://www.joymax.com/portal/ (most known game: Silkroad Online)
* http://9dragons.acclaim.com/

Then ofcourse you have membership based games where you can play for free 
but members pay to use additional content like:
* http://www.dungeonrunners.com/ (3D Diablo2 MMO, basically)

Almost everything available as pay-monthly can be found in one of the free 
download games with items shops - another reason why I wont play pay-monthly 
stuff... its an antiquated method of forcing money out of people with them 
getting nothing in return & all companies that try this deserve to fail and 
collapse.