We know that Evil Trout, and the crew that makes this game, have at least entertained the idea of making Episode 2 “pay-to-play”:

Nope, that’s it so far. It’s likely that Episode 2 will require some kind of payment to play, but we haven’t fully sorted that out yet. And the idea of selling t-shirts or posters has been thrown around, but both of those concepts are up in the air right now.

link here.

If it comes down to it, would you pay to play this game?

Personally, I would. A big reason I never got into games like City of Heroes or WoW was the cost, as well as the free nature of Guild Wars. But FWZ is not only interesting enough to pay for, but it eat up as much time as other games.

But unfortunately, I don’t have access to Paypal, so it would have to be via cash or money order.