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I have never argued there is no difference between the two games, in fact, it is obvious that IRE games are comercial while Carrion Fields is not. Now, obvious parts taken aside, let me say this: If starting tomorrow none of Carrion Fields players donated anything (no charity whatsoever), then they would be left with selling their real life products, Carrion Fields themed stuff, and the character sheets (although character sheets could be argued at best borderline RL), so, then Carrion Fields would become a "free-for-costumers-and-friends" game?
If a player can get or not in-game advantage has no bearing on the labeling a game "free to play". That is what you fail to understand, that is what you keep avoiding, that is what you keep ignoring page after page after page. What this discussion was about was about the appropriateness of IRE MUDs labeling their games "free to play", and what I argue (using your own arguments and comparisions) is that they have as much right to label themselves free to play as Carrion Fields does.
So, again, I am not a blind idiot who cannot realize there are differences between the games I compared above, but those differences have no bearing in this subject anyway.
Choosing to attach the "no-in-game-benefits" condition to the word free is an arbitrary decision, and by no means one that has to be adopted by anybody else if they do not want. So, read again, check what the discussion is about, read the arguments and bring forth something new or discuss with arguments rather than with arbitrary definitions made up on the spot, why the points brought up by others are wrong.
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