lifetime membership – MMO Fallout

Jagex has a simple contest running on their website: All you have to do is post on this thread with your avatar set to your character wearing a tattoo from the recently released Squeal of Fortune. Do so, and a random person is picked each week for three weeks to win lifetime membership to RuneScape. There’s only one problem holding back this contest: Obtaining the tattoos.

You see, each member is afforded two spins in the Squeal of Fortune daily activity, and the tattoos are extremely rare to obtain. How rare? As of this writing, there are thirteen pages of posts in the contest thread and not a single person has a tattoo and the contest was announced in the 27th of February. At this point, if you are lucky to obtain a tattoo, you have a real chance at winning the lottery by being its only entrant.

Then again, we all know that my account (mtomali) is going to win this contest. I haven’t had a tattoo even come up as a possible option in daily spins yet, but I’m sure it will happen eventually.

Bike dwarf aside, let me ask you something: How much do you expect to pay for a lifetime membership? Depending on which MMO you go to, assuming it even offers such a deal, you’re probably looking at between one and two hundred dollars. Very few MMOs offer lifetime subscriptions, as although it does offer a large upswing in cash, it is one-time and assuming the player utilizes the full amount worth, you then have a player riding for free.

In Free Realms, Sony’s foray into the kid-friendly world of MMOs, they are offering lifetime membership for thirty bucks. Even better, if you have (in the past) purchased 12-month subscription packages, you will be automatically converted to the lifetime membership at no charge.

Getting into, and staying in, Free Realms just got a whole lot cheaper. So if you have a kid who plays this game, or you play it with them, there is not time better than the present to turn them into an MMO junkie.