My opinion has always been that NO game is worth a monthly fee. Not even Unreal Tournament, which is
the game I was practically married to for a year or 2 or 3.
Lineage 2 Open Beta was my first MMORPG experience, and although I liked it quite well, it does what UT did to me much heavier, and what I dislike very much: it sucks up ALL your time if you want to be someone in such communities. I played on Erica server till I was a Human Warrior Lvl 25 with equipment worth well over a million.
Lineage 2 didn't change my feelings towards monthly fees. The idea behind MMORPGs is marvelous, but often executed poorly. Such games are still no match for the quality found in quite some renowned Single Player games. Hence I refuse to pay a monthly fee for it. It gets addiciting in the long run though... yet costly too.
I'll see what Guild Wars has to offer in it's Alpha state as they will allow players to play during E3. That game being free of monthly payment when it comes out really increases my attention.
Mind you, I'm sort of a scrooge sometimes. So my opinion might be somewhat influenced by this "cheap" nature of mine.
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