[KaVir]

I'm not really up to date on the pay-to-play muds, but I've heard a number of people in the past say that they don't mind paying a fixed monthly fee, but that they don't like the "the more you pay the better you get" pay-for-perks approach. They basically cited many of the points the pro-free-with-absolutely-no-costs-optional-or-otherwise crowd put forward about playing on a level playing field.

I don't know if they were talking about an actual mud or just a preferred payment model, but I'm pretty sure some of them actually played on pay-to-play muds.