this pay-to-play stuff regarding l2walker may be a little prank, but i doubt it. actually the authors of l2w make quite some money with the asian l2w users, so why not expand to the us market...
anyway, we will find out if it`s true or not in quite a short time. and: where`s something to pay, there`ll be a hack
regarding the worst case scenario:
is there at least one capable alternative to l2w out there?