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Originally posted by Link:
I think it has nothing to do with paying to play or a more mature content. The way a name system is set up is hardly an argument to play a game or not.
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It has everything to do with it IMHO. When you charge customers for a service they expect just that, a service. Every MMO that charges a subscription thus making money off their customers has to protect themselves from lawsuits and attacks (just look at marvel vs. city of heroes) and the naming polciy is usually always stressed.
I myself was really dreading the PTP trend as it mushroomed onto the horizon of online gaming but since buying my first pay-per-month MMO I never looked back. It truly does weed out many many of the idiots and 'l33t' kids you find on free games. There are a number of reasons for this.
One is full-time and on-call GM's that are there to actively enforce the rules and protect you at your request from harassment, vulgarity, abuse etc. Another is that the constant need for money tends to screen out the serious gamers looking for some genuine, friendly fun from the griefers who basically have little else to do. In a free game there is no money to police servers so people are pretty much left to their own devices. That means hackers, Pkers, griefers and countless distasteful character names you are forced to endure. This was my main reason for not even trying Guild Wars...the paying to play assures me of a great deal more than just the game itself. Just my 2 copper.