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P.S. I have not subbed yet because I dont really want to pay commercial prices for a niche game. Make it ~$50/year and then well talk but >$100 isnt appropriate for this. :(
Well, if you lack the money, I am not in the position to criticize you for. As a matter of fact, Ryzom is a good deal cheaper than other games, at least here in Europe. I am paying for 2 subs what I would have to pay for a single one in certain mainstream games.
And as to "niche game" vs "commercial" ones, I am regularly paying more for niche products, services, and applications than for mass products. This is true for clothes, furniture, and often even music where a hand-made CD covering barely more than production cost is more expensive than mainstream stuff ordered over Amazon.
I do not know any game matching the game idea, the atmosphere, or the hand-woven events I enjoy in Ryzom. And though I am not blind for the drawbacks and problems here, I would not want to exchange it for any of the technichally more perfect and better funded games. Your mileage may vary.
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