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Posted: Dec 24th 2008 11:16PM Teiraa said

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Agree to most of it, but I don't believe at all that "2008 signaled a death-knell for the future of subscription-based online gaming".
A large chunk of the player base is avidly hating RMT and MTs, and they are never going to love it. In future, we might see more MT based games, but the traditional subscription based model will continue to flourish in its market niche.
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Posted: Dec 24th 2008 11:32PM (Unverified) said

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Ditto. I think the older gamer is completely comfortable shelling out $15 a month and getting access to everything (with the invested time, of course). I also think this acts as a filter system of sorts, since it keeps the 1337 k1dz from saturating the player base and turning the community to crap. A service I am completely willing to pay for.
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