Subscription No Longer Needed to Play The Secret World

<p>Funcom has announced that its Modern Day&comma; All-Conspiracies-Are-True MMO&comma; <em>The Secret World&comma;<&sol;em> is going through a few changes&period; Paying for a subscription is now optional&comma; and will get you a few bonuses&comma; but is ultimately unneeded&period; Pay Once&comma; Play Forever&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;This means that after buying the game you can play all of the heralded story-line and all content available right now without a paying a monthly fee&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Retailing at the low price of &dollar;30&comma; those that invest in The Secret World before the end of the month will receive all of the content in the game&&num;8217&semi;s upcoming Issue &num;5 DLC &lpar;instead of having to wait for it to launch in January&rpar;&comma; as well as the Initiate Starter Pack&semi; which contains a Blood Raven Pet&comma; better starting weapons and extra in-game clothing&period; A new monthly membership &lpar;&dollar;15&sol;m&rpar; has also been added that comes with several perks&comma; such as&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<ul>&NewLine;<li>Time Accelerator &lpar;Clickable item which increases experience gain for defeating monsters by 100&percnt; for 1 hour&comma; 16 hour cool-down – only usable by Members and Grand Masters&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>&dollar;10 worth of Bonus Points &lpar;given out every month&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>Item-of-the-month gift &lpar;given out every month&rpar;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li>10&percnt; discount to everything in the in-game store&period; Grand Masters&comma; however&comma; will see a 20&percnt; discount to all of the items in the in-game store&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ul>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; throughout the month of December&comma; Funcom is running a special offer where they take 30&percnt; off on the first purchase on the 3&comma; 6 and 12 month Memberships&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For more info regarding the changes to <em>The Secret World<&sol;em>&comma; like the new in-store items and previous content updates&comma; head to the game&&num;8217&semi;s full site <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thesecretworld&period;com&sol;news&sol;subscription&lowbar;no&lowbar;longer&lowbar;required">here<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;-WDWa9Aqu-g" height&equals;"315" width&equals;"560" allowfullscreen&equals;"" frameborder&equals;"0"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;