In all honesty I don't mind paying a subscription fee "IF" the game has regular good content updates that keep the game evolving constantly. I payed to play world of warcraft for many years and was fine with it because blizzard did such a great job at evolving the game every few months but can Zenimax do as good as a job as blizzard? time will tell. I think the one thing that I don't like about a subscription fee is that sometimes you don't get to play enough to make the $15/month worth it. I think it would be great if there were different levels of subscription fees for example: $15/month gets you unlimited hours, or you can pay a $5/month subscription fee but you only get x-amount of hours per month.

but you do get gear and weapons to upgrade ur stats they just dont change the way you look, I have played a fair amount of hours into the beta and now for me the achievement is unlocking all the cool abilities to choose from and combine them to suit ur style i think its a cool concept, also the quest have alot more sense of achievement over say wow as some of the quests you really need to think about how its going to be done and can be quite challenging and fun, the more time i spent playing the game the more i enjoyed it for what it is and am loving how funcom have broken away from the standard mmo ways

I have played at least 4-5 hours of this game and think it has great potential, I have played wow for many many years now and just need a change as most other mmo's on the market seem to be just a copy of wow, the secret world to me definatly seems different to the usual mmo. i mean sure u spam the number buttons to use abilities in combat but the rest feels and plays alot different, graphics are quite impressive for an mmo, the game has a nice spooky setting to it, i also am enjoying the no need to constant grind enemies in order to level cap, and the abilities tree is quite interesting and simple to use. all round Gratz to funcom on the beta and hope this game will keep bringing positive gameplay in the future