Oh, I didn't realize that had changed. I remember when JL first started playing SL (before Brigadoon and before he worked there) he put a link in the forums inviting BT people to join.... I'm not interested in online gaming, but by husband like gaming and so he checked SL out. I remember that it was free to join, free for a month, but then after that you had to pay to play - I think it was about $13 a month.

So that's why I assumed there was still a monthly fee involved.... I'm now guessing that the fee went away now that SL money is interchangable with real life money -- when my husband played for 2 weeks the money system in the game had nothing to do with real money.