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Correct. Just like you don't have to give consideration to Iron Realms to play our games. Just like almost nobody in Korea has to give consideration to Nexon and the other games companies to play their games.

Broadcast television, incidentally, is free only as long as consumers give money to the makers of the products and services advertised on tv. It doesn't make it less free that it is 100% dependent on consumers spending money.

Or win the regular monthly and more contests that we hold. And, of course, if you're suggesting that having to expend in-game gold to achieve something makes a MUD free then any MUD that requires someone to spend an in-game currency on anything at all is not free. I find that to be an insupportable notion.

--matt