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What I posted:
Free: No purchase is available to change the game experience.
Perks: Optional purchases can change the game experience.
Pay-to-Play: Mandatory purchases are required to access the game on a continuing basis.
If the T-shirt was an in-game T-shirt, that's a perk, and the game is pay-for-perks.
A subscription plus the ability to buy perks is pay-to-play, if the subscription is mandatory.
Threshold is pay-to-play, as they require one or more fees up front to play the game.
I don't get what's confusing here. At most, I could see a game with both mandatory payments and perks (Threshold) as getting both icons next to their name. Or a fourth color denoting "both".
It all comes down to:
(y/n): Are perks available within the game?
(y/n): Are there mandatory fees for playing the game?
I don't think that's very confusing, and I do think it's valuable information for a player using this MUD resource.
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