It’s not often I stumble over new things. Mostly my life as a writer is about regurgitating previously announced information, or coming at that information in a new (often more personal) way. So it was kind of a pleasant surprise when Smedley passed on word of the “Share the Wealth” program.

I’ve got a two-part interview up on Massively today discussing the future of FreeRealms’ buy-in program, and one of the reason why they raised those damned Station Access rates.

We are having ongoing discussions inside the company about making station access an all-inclusive pass. Everything that we have, you get as a customer. Station Access subscribers would get every expansion pack for every game, as well as future expansions for every game as well. For the same price now, without raising the price. We have two problems, though. One: we have third parties involved in this. LucasArts, for example, will have to buy off on this, as would others. Second is the less obvious one: Promising future stuff is the meat of the problem. We haven’t found the right way to word things yet. To be honest other priorities have gotten in the way. That’s what we want to offer people.

They’ve been working on the right language for that Access program for over a year. Faster lawyers, kill, kill!