No offense, but I love how these F2P companies are ruining the usuage of words such as expansion and open beta. What I consider an expansion is a whole new world that rivals the old world. Take World of Warcraft for example. There expansion was not just one zone, but many zones and pretty much a whole new continent plus new skills, increased level cap and a new class or two. Everquest is another shining example of this but has downplayed it a lot lately. I just watched the PWI movie, and the guy said pretty much the oposite of what an expansion is. He said most expansions are only a new zone or monster, which honestly what game has called an expansion by creating a monster. Anyways, what he said is that PWI creates expansions but they really are nothing more than content patches.

Same goes for Open beta usage. Open beta for me is more of a advertisement of your game and a stress test for your servers. It usually last a week or two and usually has a level cap enforced and a data wipe afterwards. Now flip over to a f2p Open Beta and you get quite the opposite. I've seen f2p Open Beta's last months after months. Not only that but they allow characters to transfer over, allow money to be transacted on top of other things. It reallyis not a big deal, I just find it stupid they do this. It's almost like they are using it to hide something. Anyways, back to drawing and photo-editing.