Well, for one thing, I have no idea what, if any, new features we’ll see. So it’s difficult to say whether I’d pay or how much I’d pay. One thing I would expect is brownie points to be included in the price of admission.

Another troubling aspect is that we’d lose a lot of people. Some people I wouldn’t mind losing, but others I’d miss . . . and I might not be interested in paying if those people were gone . . . so . . .

On the third hand, this is a web game with no real in game interaction between players.

One thing I could see is selling console and mobile clients for a small fee. Sure, the web client would still be available, but I bet some folks would shell out $5 for a dedicated client for their iPhone, especially if it meant more responsiveness when not on a wifi network. Maybe a lot of folks, once it hits the App Store. This is the course I’d recommend, and it’d cost $100 to get the app (and unlimited other apps as you want to develop) into the iPhone App store.

So, my answer is a great big “depends”, like what I’m wearing right now.