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Originally Posted by Redshift

i'd be up for an initial purchase price with confirmed hackers having serials banned

This.

I can't think of another way of permanently banning hackers. You can IP ban them but a lot of them can just change it. Make the game cost $30-$40, and the serial key will be linked to your SOE account. If you screw around, your serial key will be banned and you can only get a new one if you buy a new game.

[Lonehunter]

I'm fine with buying the game and paying a monthly fee, some F2P games have some kind of VIP subscription, hell if the game meets my expectations I'd pay $20

[Redshift]

you can move me down to the guild wars system tbh, i'd be quite happy with that.

I do think you should have to play something for the game to start with though just to limit hackers, if they really don't like that idea, you could still make it "free" by making it a copy cost £10 or something but crediting each account with £10 of store credit when it's activated

[Crator]

I agree about the hacker comment if that's an issue. It has been said however that they have the means to fight the hackers. I believe em until I see it not work.

[Redshift]

Originally Posted by Crator

I agree about the hacker comment if that's an issue. It has been said however that they have the means to fight the hackers. I believe em until I see it not work.

depends if it prevents hacking or detects and bans it.

If it just detects and bans there's no point to it unless there's a way to stop them just making another account and jumping back in

[Crator]

Not sure by Smed did say they are using multiple methods to deal with the issue.