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The Secret World Drops Subscription Fee

The Secret World – Funcom's modern-day MMO about competing secret societies the world over – is dropping its subscription fee.

There is still a membership option, which will get you money to spend in the in-game store, a way to get double experience for a period each day, and an in-game story discount. But once you buy the game, it's free to play forever.

For more on The Secret World, check out this trailer for the game's latest update, which includes its first raid.

Note: The original article incorrectly stated that the game was going free to play. The correct distinction has since been corrected. We apologize for the mistake.

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  • I can't wait to try TXAA with this game! With my Geforce GTX 660
  • This is not surprising. It's an all right game. Nothing worth paying a subscription for.
  • I'll try it....

  • I think it's safe to say that if you're a subscription based MMO that isn't WoW, then you're not gonna be that way for long. You'd think that publishers of these MMO's would get that by now.
  • Great! Now I can actually try this MMO out.

  • With the way most MMOs are going, is it any wonder that this went FTP? It'd probably be future games' advantage to start FTP but offer better rewards to paying customers.
  • This is awesome. I've been wanting to try this game. The concept seems fantastic, but I wasn't willing to get into another pay to play MMO. Those days are dead developers! Long live F2P!
  • It's buy to play NOT free to play.

  • YAY!!! This was the only thing keeping me from going back. I shall now be returning. People should really try this game now and see, I loved it.

  • It's still too $$. Waiting for it to become free to play with cash shop. Watching some friends play it just didn't make me want to buy it.
  • I hate subscriptions!

  • Not worth subscription so they made a good decision

  • I was waiting for this!

  • I called it when I was invited for alpha testing, and later beta. The game wasn't up to snuff and I didn't see it competing with other subscription based mmos. I think that dropping the subscription fees was a good move, now they might get more users.

  • MMos are learning

  • FunCom hasn't done wrong by me so far, so I'll probably have to check this out. Now I just need Ragnar to give me Dreamfall Chapters.

  • Is this game any good? I can't seem to get answers from any game site...
  • No complaints here.

  • Is there any MMO out there right now besides WOW that still has a subscription fee?
  • Really wish this game had a free trial. It looks really interesting but I don't want to buy it without an idea of how good it is.
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