I don't know about the others, but since the start I was given a 1h gameplay limit each day and had never experienced the 10 hours unrestricted play.

Is it just me or did they forget about it?

My brother is a free account as well. He doesn't like sand-box game, but I finally convince him to play.

Anyway, he only play like half the advertise time. I have him on friendlist and saw his character log in and out all the time even thought he didn't play at all.

What does that have to do with the 10 hours of unrestricted play?

I think his point is the system seems to be using up that 10 hours when the player is not actively logged in.

That could be an explanation for the discrepancy.

Or the timer may just be screwed up, which to me seems quite likely.

I have made alts with throwaway emails to test all the schools, and have yet to get 10 actual hours of trial time for any of them. The time seems to drain away almost at random, with a character I was playing today going from 300+ minutes of remaining time when I logged in to the 10 minute warning after only an hour or so.

I'm going to just keep making alts though to keep playing, as I don't really feel like paying them to be in a beta test. That and I have yet to decide on a school.

Ghat

It definitely appears to be counting the time even after you log off. It certainly burned off the 10 hours after my first login which only lasted a little over an hour and then started limiting me to 1 hour after that.

Honestly, it doesn't really matter anymore. I'm done here. I wanted to give constructive/supportive feedback, but clearly the "we're listening to you" line is the usual lip service until they pull out the next bag of tricks as I just had one of my posts regarding concerns about hacking removed for the ever lovely and vague "inappropriate content" and controversial posts are getting locked not because they have become unruly but rather because they have "gone off topic", yeah, off onto topics they don't want us discussing.

Throwing this game in the bin of "games with potential ruined by companies inability to act ethically". It's sadly an ever growing pile. Seriously, this is why we can't have nice things.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

you can play only 1 hour per day .. there is no 10 continuous hour gameplay.. I've tried it..

So now the question is whether the 10 hours continues gameplay which is including offline time intentional or accidental....

Dont mind about im free user, but I suggest Snail USA should stop the kid-act. Lets, free users, play all the time we want. There's alot diff btw us and elite or something like that. They have vip status, gifts and even gold. With 10usd and above they can play better than free user, why u , snail still continue restrict free user, this is "free to play" not "play to fee". Let all of gamers feel this game 'worth to play' even its 'pay to win'

Aint gonna happen bro, let me clarify the picture for you without making any conclusion, only fact
1)Limit free user to 10hour initially and 1 hour per day after
2)Sell deluxe package that allow full access with 90% of the value gone when the game launch (VIP, horses etc etc)
3)Limit the all paying and non paying user to chapter 1 of the content
4)Screw up the free player play time (software bug....^^)
5)Delete thread that discuss whether player feel it's worth it to continue vip sub after it expire (yes it happen, not locked but deleted)

Hope those fact can clarify the situation for you. Another thing is that it's 19.99usd not 10usd to gain access and that is also a fact ^^
Also be sure to check out other thread asking whether the 19.99usd purchase is worth the investment before commiting to it. One can never research too much, right?