The article is from MMOsite Writer Club member cesarsuki.

Lately I#DY#ve been reading more and more complaints about players that just seem to hate the Free to Play model. I see it everywhere, in the forums, in the blog, in my cereal. And I#DY#m sick tired of it. I keep reading and I never get to the part of someone replying "Oh no man Free to Play is really cool I like it .." No, the rest is just people nodding and as usual throwing in additional complaints of their own. 

Well I think Free To Play needs a lawyer, and since I would go down defending it, here is my effort on paying Free To Play back for all the fun that I#DY#ve had.

Start

Curiosity was what brought me to online games, I had heard about World of Warcraft, but since I couldn#DY#t afford it, I didn#DY#t even google it. Later, I saw more and more references to online games from the TV series I watched and gaming websites, and I became inevitably more curious by the hour. One day when I finally embarked on the quest to play online I saw "Free to Play!" on a web banner and I thought to myself "There is hope!!". I kept browsing and I found Rose Online, I downloaded and played for a while, but later I read the website more carefully and realized it was just a trial. Bummer, I was just getting excited, what point was there to play then for a week if I just would be able to keep exploring after a week? So I kept going and bumped into 2D online games, I found some nice people and some hostile encounters.

Later I got hooked on Fly For Fun, F.E.A.R. Combat and other free games. In my situation I have so many things that I have to pay that I just can#DY#t afford to pay a monthly subscription. Maybe I could pay a subscription one or two months, then I might buy a book that I need and voila! I don#DY#t have a penny.

"Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance."
                                                                         -William Wirt

Plus, paying for a game would make me feel somehow that I am wasting my money if I don#DY#t play for a certain amount of time on the week.

That would certainly trigger my mom#DY#s voice in the back of my head saying "You shouldn’t be paying for games you don#DY#t have time to play!!!" 

This is where Free To Play suits me like a made-to-order tuxedo, I can spare some money every now and then to buy some luxury item on the mall; and I could just login and say "Hey guys I have final exams the next two weeks, I#DY#ll be offline for a while". Maybe I will be guildless when I log back in, but I don#DY#t have to worry about money spent for nothing.