Unknown Soldier said:In unrelated news, NA/EU MMOG players get screwed when it comes to paying for their games. Not only do they have to pay subscriptions month-to-month, instead of buying time cards when they have time to play and the account is just inactive when time is expired, they have to pay for the game at launch! How shitty is that? Koreans and Chinese never pay up front for the game, they just buy the time cards and go to any Internet cafe and play! I mean, I like owning my own computer and playing my games on it, but wouldn't it be cool if there was an Internet cafe on every corner which had my game installed on it, so I could just show up anywhere and log in and play?
Timecards are pretty frequent in the west too you know... When I played L2 I only used them because you could get them ridiculously cheap on same websites (or trade them for ingame currencies with other player).