Just want to inform you - The monthly fee is currently 17,99 € which are 23,57 $.

Which leads to the conclusion: AO is the most expensive MMO out there at the moment.

I honestly ask myself, why? The grafics are 2000ish, the gameplay is like in any other mmo (because ofc in that time this game was released, this type of gameplay was fun), Funcom told their community for over 3 (4?) years now that they will release a new grafics-engine which seems to be a complete lie -

So in the end: Why 17,99 €?

I for myself wanted to get back half a year ago, but this amount just shocked me.

They have deployed an item store as well. The store contains social items, vehicles, pets, buff cans and xp stims for example.