This game is pretty awesome I must say. The game costs anywhere from $40-60 to purchase, but comes packaged with the "Rise of the Zilart" expansion. It then costs from $10-12 (depending on how many months you pre-pay) a month to play, the first month is free.
For those of you who don't like paying monthly fees to play rpg's, in a word, too bad. That's the way all rpg's are moving and the way MMORPG's have always been. Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Star Wars Galaxies, Ultima Online, they've all been PTP (pay to play).
The advantage of this is that you can play online with others, which makes the game so much better. Also, they are able to have 24-hour service so the game hardly ever goes down...or if it does, it is back up within 30 minutes.
I recommend to anyone that likes the Final Fantasy series that they pick this game up and give it a shot. If you don't like after the first month, sell the game back used. That way it only cost you like $20 to try it out. I will definitely be playing quite a bit of the game.
Nick
