i don't mind online activation, i do mind having a limit on the amount of activations i can do... i format my hard drive a lot, i'd hate to have to keep buying new copies just because i had to re-install my game a few times.
also i don't have a credit card, so having in-game items that require one to buy them would be bad.
generally games fail when you have to not only pay for them, but even after you pay for them you find out its not "really" free to play, you still gotta pay even more to actually be competitive (to actually play). the only in-game items that you should be able to purchace are ones that don't effect the gameplay and don't give anyone anywhere an advantage... like skins... or maybe a different reflector sight, that kinda thing... at least for online gameplay...
and the idea where u get a totally useless game for free, but u can pay for addons... just doesn't make sense for a combat flight sim u wanna be able to see all the glory right off the bat, not get shot down and lose all the time in some useless crappy assed plane... that'd make u not wanna buy the game, instead u'd never wanna look at it again.
maybe doing something like Aces high does... (or used to do) where u have a free 8 player game mode, and u can play offline, but u don't get the glory of playing with everyone in the big online campeign unless u pay for it. it would solve the problems for the few and far between people in the places so rural they don't have broadband internet, and also allow for something like a battle.net type lobby.(im talking more like the diablo 1 type battle.net, not the warcraft 3 type one)
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