i am as much against paying to play a game online as the next person, and I love the Blizzard did the free Battle.net thing with Starcraft, Warcraft, and the Diablos, but when you begin thinking about MMORPGs, I know it is infeasible to think it would have a flat one time fee..
servers are too costly, and the only way to make up for that cost is to charge people/month who are using their resources..
it is just the nature of the beast, so to speak.
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