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* ''[[Dark Orbit]]'' features two kinds of currencies: credits, which may be obtained generating and selling minerals (for free; it just requires you to be [[Money Grinding|clickittyclickittypatient]]); and Uridium, which are obtained mainly paying a monthly fee. You can find both types of currency roaming randomly through the space and completing missions, but Uridium are much rarer, and, of course, [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|Uridium buy the coolest things]].<ref>To clarify: in the shop, all items have a fixed price, in credits or Uridium. You can still auction any item for credits, but you need '''lots''' of luck or '''lots''' of money. Or both. Or logging in at ungodly hours when no one's awake (it kind of helps that ''[[Dark Orbit]]'' servers are country-specific).</ref>
* ''[[Sryth]]'' has a lot of content available for free. Buying a subscription (9.95 USD for 3 months, or 19.95 USD for 1 whole year) grants access to even more content: The ability to log in regardless of server load, no ads, more character slots (4 instead of 2), more adventures, more events, more locations to visit, a way to learn all skills and powers instead of just some of them, Grand Residences, Multiplayer scenarios… See [http://www.sryth.com/ci.php?f_c=members_ag_fb.inc this page] for an incomplete list of the things subscribers get.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons Online]]'' was one of the first [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s to essentially combine [[Allegedly Free Game]] and Freemium, into three distinct payment models: Free to Play, Premium, and VIP. The first, which is like many [[Allegedly Free Game]]'s and requires earning or buying points to unlock content - using [[Microtransactions]]. In this model, the player technically plays for free, but continuing to play the game this way requires a lot of grinding, and dealing with multiple limitations [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|(which can mostly be bypassed through the store)]] in order to progress past the first 8 to 12 levels. The second two are more along the lines of Freemium, with the only exception being that the Premium level requires some form of payment - whether that be purchasing an access to a pack of dungeon's, subscribing for a month, or even buying any amount of points. This mode removes a lot of the more draconian limitations placed on free players, but still requires purchasing [[Downloadable Content|quest packs]] with points. Finally, the old tried-and-true subscription model works exactly how it does in most other [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]]s. Namely, unlimited access to content, save for some of the newly introduced races and classes. Subscribers also get a 500 point allowance per month to spend in the store [[Bribing Your Way to Victory|for various convenience items]].
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' introduced this recently. There's 3 tiers: Free, Premium, and VIP. Free is, of course, someone who's never paid a dime. They don't have access to Chat Channels, the in-game Auction House, Mission Architect, end-game system and even certain Classes, and also don't have Posting access on the forums. They do, however, have access to 99% of the content of the game, levels 1-50, no purchases of any kind required. Premium is anyone who's EVER paid ''anything'' who may or may not have the limits described above (for instance, one can buy access to the Market or Mission Architect, and once one has bought enough stuff, they're automatically granted certain privileges such as Forum posting and the previously-locked Classes), and VIP are monthly subscribers who get everything listed above, plus certain Online-Store items for free, as well as a free stipend of points to use in the Online Store and other perks.
* ''[[ARMA: Armed Assault|ARMA]] 2: Free'' is a free-to-play counterpart to ''ARMA 2'' released two years after the retail game, advertised as free of microtransactions and allowing Free players to play alongside or against players who'd bought the game. Unlike ''ARMA 2'' however, the free version does not include the official campaigns, has toned-down graphics quality compared to the paid versions, and does not support the use of [[Game Mod|addons]]—so no custom guns, vehicles, characters, etc. As a result, they can only play on ARMA 2: Free servers or on ARMA 2 servers that are not running custom player-made addons, unless they were to buy ''ARMA 2'' or ''Operation Arrowhead''.
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