As I said elsewhere, MTs are ok when people aren't asked to pay a monthly fee. It's a very viable way to fund a game without burdenin g casual players (even if anyone that's little more than casual ends up often spending more than a monthly fee, the comparison with CCG isn't definately a wrong one.

It becomes MUCH less ok when they become a further way to milk players on top of the monthly fee, like WoW's appearence/gender changes and SOE's EQ's E-walmart. That's basically an excuse to make people pay additional money for content/services that should most definately be part of the monthly fee itself.


Until now there has been a clear divide between P2P games and F2P games, bastardizing the payment method definately isn't good for us cunsomers, expecially if it becomes widespread in the industry.