Soo, Player A buys the booster, gives client to player B (who is hopelessley hooked) and then subscribes after 30 days and also buys boosters, who he gives to player C, etc.
Not sure this is totally valid. I get sent disks from AOL quite often and I bin them. If a friend gave me AO, I would do the same.
You can download the game without a key and play it, so the client and key thing is not really a great incentive.
I have cancelled my account as I cannot see the point in continuing while boosters (patches), and expansions (big bug fixes) are now being charged for.
I am heading over to AC for a little while as I never saw that, and will move to AC2 on launch. Incidentally, AC plus free month cost less than the AO booster...
I will probably return to AO in a year or so when I am bored of AC2 and SWG and awaiting the October 2003 launch of EQ2.
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