| ArchLord to use PlayPLUS Subscription Model |
 ArchLord to use PlayPLUS Subscription Model Sat, 5 August 2006 Codemasters find new ways to ask for your money
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Codemasters Online Gaming today announces 'PlayPLUS', a revolutionary subscription system for the hugely anticipated MMORPG ArchLord™. The PlayPLUS system will enable players to purchase packages that include both game time and in-game bonus credits. Credits will be redeemable against in-game items and benefits, such as experience bonuses, teleportation spells, health boosts and many other desirable enhancements.
Items obtained using the bonus credits are additional to the standard in-game currency system and are only used as a way of enhancing your character further. Regular in-game items, including weapons, armour, potions, and mounts, will still be freely available through the regular in-game currency system. - Codemasters The press release outlines the different plans which will be available, ranging in price from a modest US$9.99 per month to a staggering US$39.99 per month. It seems that a revenue-raising scheme, invented by smaller developers to allow them to offer games free from subscriptions, has been assimilated by Codemasters into the existing pay-to-play format. Players of free MMORPGs generally don't mind the fact that certain items are locked for paying players, since most of the game is still freely accessible. But only time will tell whether players will be willing to pay for extra content on a monthly basis on top of the initial purchase and their regular subscription fees.
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