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Consider going into your nearest car dealership and asking for the keys to last years model. Imagine being given this car to drive around for free, but if you wanted to upgrade to the new model, with the CD player and A/C, you'd have to pay a few bucks. You would go around telling your friends you got a free car!
Now, how is this different from Achaea's business model? When its taken out of context of the MUD genre, one so flooded with crap free games that most decent games would not be commercially viable for their creators, I see no significant difference with the car metaphor.
Before you go and complain that its not fair that people with money get to play more, I would like to point out a few things:
1) Money is no more fair a commodity than time, intelligence, or charisma, and those are all things that usually determine power in a MUD.
2) Don't like it don't play it. You have a vast array of free dikus to play. If you notice the significant increase in quality that tends to go with a commercial game, then unfortunately you have to wake up to the realities of the capitalist market.
- Ryan
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