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Home News The Secret World Goes "Free-To-Play" After 5 Months, Sets New Record

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The Secret World Goes "Free-To-Play" After 5 Months, Sets New Record

Posted on Wednesday, December 12 @ 12:11:34 Eastern by Jonathan_Leack

Paying for things is so overrated. Especially subscription fees. Those are just silly.

Funcom has announced that The Secret World no long requires a monthly fee to play. However, a purchase of game box is required to create an account and jump into its horrific world—see what I did there?

Unlike other MMOs which have gone free-to-play recently—*cough* Star Wars: The Old Republic *cough*—no content will be restricted. However, membership is available for the continued price of $14.99 and will carry some exclusive benefits. The benefits as listed on the official site are the following:
  • 'The Time Accelerator'. This clickable item increases experience gain for defeating monsters by 100% for 1 hour and has a 16 hour cool-down. This item can only be used by Members and Grand Masters.
  • $10 worth of Bonus Points given out every month which can be used towards any product in the Item Store of The Secret World (bonus points are valid for 6 months).
  • Membership Item-of-the-month gift (given out every month).
  • 10% discount to everything in the Item Store except Content Packs or other Packs (discounts to the Item Store do not stack with other offers).
Those are some truly stupendous perks. Looks like I'll have to reinstall the game now.
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Tags:   The Secret World, Funcom


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  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
    Sweet sweet karma johnny.
    0 3
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
    Haha. Love it, Jonny.
    0 2
  • drathbone
    drathbone
    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
    You're favorite game F2P, I'm so happy for you Jonathan!
    1 2
  • 213EDD
    213EDD
    Joined: Sep 2007
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
    The evolution of EA's MMO's
    0 2
  • UghRochester
    UghRochester
    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
    I came to this article looking for them to flood it with comments. They'll show up again, just wait.
    0 0
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 4:42 pm
    I don't think they're going to come here. What can they possible say? I killed it?
    0 1
  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 6:41 pm
    Well, sure, they *could* say that. It would be a pretty idiotic thing to say, but they proved themselves to be big-time idiots when they were here last time.
    0 0
  • napsterxxl
    napsterxxl
    Joined: Mar 2006
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
    If you write it, they will come....
    0 0
  • Kakulukia
    Kakulukia
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
    Pretty sure they won't, since there's no link to here from Metacritic. You know, the site around which their entire lives revolve.
    0 0
  • ShadeTail
    ShadeTail
    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 4:03 pm
    I wonder how many of the trolls who made their accounts merely to insult Mr. Leack's review are even still playing this game.
    0 3
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000
    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 4:11 pm
    Haha, what's even more funny is that it gave the site even more traffic that day.
    0 2
  • Sourdeez
    Sourdeez
    Joined: Feb 2012
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
    The same amount who thought Anet would fix and optimize the guild wars 2 client.
    0 0
  • elmoreoocyte
    elmoreoocyte
    Joined: Apr 2012
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 4:10 pm
    I wouldn't even play it for free. Maybe I didn't give it enough time, but playing it on the free weekend a little while back left me completely underwhelmed.
    0 1
  • Kakulukia
    Kakulukia
    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 6:57 pm
    Wow, those review comments are hilarious.
    I wonder if Crucible even remembers the game.
    0 0
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm
    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Dec 12th, 2012 at 8:51 pm
    Whatever, Leach.
    0 1
  • vlietvandon
    vlietvandon
    Joined: Nov 2008
    Posted: Dec 13th, 2012 at 1:24 am
    Well I found a number of things to be wrong with this "news":

    1. .........lol
    0 0
  • R0ADK1LL
    R0ADK1LL
    Joined: Jul 2009
    Posted: Dec 13th, 2012 at 1:07 pm
    Their tag line is: Pay Once, Play Forever
    Does this mean they will never take the servers down? Forever is a long time.

    I was actually excited for this game but the subscription fee put me off, plus the combat & general gameplay looked pretty clunky. I like story but poor gameplay is hard to put up with, can anyone actually recommend this game?
    0 0
  • Jonathan_Leack
    Jonathan_Leack
    Joined: Jan 2012
    Posted: Dec 13th, 2012 at 5:24 pm
    Absolutely not. There is nobody on the planet that actually enjoys the game. If someone tells you they do then they're just trolling. Don't let them troll you.
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