Re: What does "Free" Mean?
The Sword of One Thousand Lies could be available
for an online paypal payment of $50, or 2,147,483,647 platinum
coins in-game (which would take you 67 years to collect).
In such a case, a game would not be lying, in a strict sense, if
they said that the SOOTL was a perk available without having
to pay money....despite the fact that for all practical purposes,
it isn't really available except through the exchange of real
world funds.
For this reason I've accepted dropping this sort
of qualification from the payment types list. I'm not
that happy about it, because it's really useful
information, but it can be fudged so easily as to
be meaningless in practice...like "free".
-Crat
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