[Milawe]

Not to throw fuel on the fire, but do people really need that much hand holding that we have to list every possible concept of payment possible? Most of the pay for perks muds and pay games make it extremely easy to get to their "PAY HERE" page. It makes sense. If they're a commerical venture, they obviously want to make it extremely easy on their customers to pay. Yet, no one is actually forced to pay. In most of these games, you can play without ever having to pay and advanced quite far. In fact, some players find this to be the challenge.

I know as a player, I'm not stupid. As soon as I find the type of game that I want (usually really old games or pay games because I'm tired of the muds I've played shutting down), I go to their webpage and find out what their system of donations is or whether or not they take money. Then I play the mud to see if I like it.

When I see "Kids Eat for Free on Tuesday" at our local Italian place, I honestly don't believe that they'll just let me walk in, feed my kids, and leave. They expect me to buy an adult entree, and then my kids get to eat. Technically, my kids do "eat for free", but I guess they could just discount our adult entrees on Tuesday and get the same effect.

Anyway, my point is that it's pretty well understood, I think, that "FREE" means that you can play for free, without paying a dime. It simply might not be the easiest course if you do so. It would almost be easiest to simply have a check box for [ ] No money accepted in any form than to try to encompass all the different subscription/pricing situations out there. That way people who want that very specific type of game can find it. It's very easy to police and very few muds out there actually fall into this category. Others can simply advertise as they like. If they manage to find someone gullible enough to ignore all the pricing information on their webpage, then that person can be suitably outraged.