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Posted October 22nd, 2009 by B. de la Durantaye

How much are you willing to pay for an online subscription fee? Millions, obviously, are willing to pay at least $15 a month. But what happens when you want to play more than one game? Your options are usually pretty limited, but that may soon change. More and more games are trying new subscription models, and to some of them, that means a whole new life breathed into the game. Today we take a look at what going F2P means to title in Loading... Free to MMO.

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I only regularly pay for one MMO at a time, but I've been well known to overlap subscriptions when I get bored of my current one while I start the next.

As I wrote in the other thread about F2P models, I'm really starting to love them cause we get to play for free, and even though many of us never or rarely spend money on them, there is a huge percentage of the player-base that does and they spend well above the normal $15 monthly fee of a P2P MMO.

$15 to some is pocket change where as t...

If the content is there, my money will be there.I normally have at least 2 - 3 subs at a time and a F2P sitting on the side just in case i run in to a money problem.

I cant say i have ran in to a game that has a expensive subscription fee, for the UK there around �8 - 10 a month which is fair. However champions online has shown me the joys of a lifetime sub so if a game ever has one its now going to be an option for me.

free to play?

I think i've said this once before Free to Play is not FREE.the content available for f2p is extremly limited with 90% of the core content considered premium(pay extra for)and in some cases temporary(time limit to complete)which means you may have to pay again and again to run the same content to get that special item that drops once ina 100 runs.i'm not talking about just raids either i'm talking about wilderness areas, multi part quests with a story line that subscribers use for leveling an...

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Free to Play is not FREE.the content available for f2p is extremly limited with 90% of the core content considered premium(pay extra for)and in some cases temporary(time limit to complete)which means you may have to pay again and again to run the same content to get that special item that drops once ina 100 runs.

Yeah, I'd have to greatly disagree with you there cause I've played a ton of F2P...

In DDO you can not play all the content for free, Adventure packs must be purchased if you don't have a subscription.

And is it me, or has there been a huge number of DDO articles on this site since it went free to play? The whole free to play concept around here at TTH had died off completely, yet it has miraculously revived since Turbine joined the bandwagon.

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