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You're the one skirting the issue, KaVir. Donations or credits, it doesn't matter. Someone has to pay money for you to play for free. Some MUDs sustain themselves through asking for donations, others through selling IG services/items/currency/whatever. You're trying to twist login in such a way to separate the two when they are very much the same so far as 'free play' is concerned. I got credits from players, by PAYING them with IG gold. I spent time making gold so they don't have to and I got credits in return. Nobody sponsored me, as you so tenaciously seek to imply.
And you constantly forget that you CAN get credits in the game.
Credits are, in most cases generated by cash. That however has no bearing on the fact that you can play for free. You can get them from other players by offering services to them. The fact that someone in the total playerbase has to eventually pay something is utterly irrelevant because of the simple fact that if they didn't, the game wouldn't function at all.
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