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

A truly perfect world ;>)
>