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9 years ago

Mod pack improvements missed the mark

I appreciate you split the packs into their type, but increasing the price and lowering the quality is really sad. 400$ worth of mods not one worth using. And then i had to spend 30 minutes deleting...

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almightywood

9 years ago

"EZKill;1004861" wrote:
"Woodroward;1004854" wrote:
it's not an exaggeration. I was dialing up to BBS's with my 300 baud modem and paying for more attempts on their door games around 1990. The freemium model has been around as long as interconnected over phone line devices have been publicly available.

Hmm, I played TradeWars for a little while back then but had no idea you could pay to win. Oh well.

Not sure if you could do it on Trade Wars. There was this one website called Pirates Anonymous. You could get extra attempts added to your account by dialing a 1-900 number. Then there were the sites you could buy currency, but you had to mail them a money order, or drop it by their place.

Of course there were the coffee house get togethers for the BBS users, and you could pay for site things then as well. I want to say some may have taken credit cards, but I didn't have one so I can't say for sure, it's been a while.