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Old 01-09-2006, 05:47 AM   #256
Hadoryu
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The bolded part is untrue. It's been said many many times before. You can substitute money with time and still get access to everything in the game. I don't mean 'time' as in working for the game either.

We've never established that. One of the very first examples you were given was of a player with full skills and at the top of the rankings without having paid anything. The opportunity for advancement is there and it's very real. You're right that paying money gives you an advantage, but it gives you an advantage in precisely the same way that investing more time does.

It doesn't say 'completely free' anywhere. It says 'free to play', which implies that there is something you CAN buy for money - but it isn't the ability to play. It's also a system that allows you progress, unlike the free first month example you gave. You can't substitute money for time in it.

You can consistently quest for gold and you can consistently get credits for gold. Repeatably too.

IRE advertises as 'free to play', not completely free. And playing is indeed - free. No player has to pay anything for you to play.

Based on your logic you could make the statement that all MUDs who accept donations aren't free. A MUD needs to finance itself in order to stay afloat. Whether it's financed by the MUD owner or by optional player payments makes no difference how free the MUD is to play.
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