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"Trammel" <Me@Server.com> wrote in message 
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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.

Oops - nearly forgot this one.
http://perfectworld.com/

This is a great free game where you can do martial arts, use bows, use 
magic, fly on animals/swords/with your own wings, etc...
...its got a huge (almost never ending) amount of different quests, huge 
playing area, monsters of various levels incase you dont like quests... 
safe, consentual and PvP areas... item shop for upgrades, etc... and the 
best thing my girlfriend liked is that the male characters can lift up the 
females, give them a kiss and then fly with the woman still in their arms 
:ŹP
(plus my favorite part... I can drop her in the sea ;Ź)