[LeeDot]

Ugh, that article totally makes everything way too confusing in my personal opinion and leaves out some important points. Also, I did not read all 25 pages of comments so I apologize if I missed something. Here are some quick points -

- Free Play-

- Does have customer support but it isn't 24/7 premium customer support. Being 'just an artist' I don't know all the specifics here.
- Can join guilds but can't found a guild or use guild officer functions.
- Can play with elite players in all areas of the game that come with the shipped game but not in new areas added post launch.
- Can not use 'elite' items. It should be noted that elite items are not more powerful/unbalanced items but rather have flashier appearances or simply new items that still fit in the overall balance scheme.
- Includes patching/balance updates. (in case that's not obvious)
- On the same secure servers as 'elite' players.

-Elite-
- Regular content updates, small ones every month and large ones every three months.
(ie. new quests, dungeons, weapons, monsters, etc. that can only be accessed by elite players.)
- Elite content will access higher
- Can create guilds.
- 24/7 Cust. Supp.
- More character slots/larger shared stash
- Additional play modes, hardcore, pvp, rp, etc..
- Hopefully there will never be server ques but -if- there are then elites get priority.


maiku- It is my understanding that all elite items (or ones in the additional storage, etc.) will be frozen if you stop subscribing but are not deleted/destroyed. I believe this also applies to additional character slots and any other elite features.

zoner - If you subscribe 6 months after release you get all the new content that had been added during the previous 6 months.

northrop - I think that's 40 slots per character.

- One account per cd key as far as I know.