Monthly fees for MMO's are just stupid, Galaxies requires a 20 buck monthly fee, you know, that comes to 240 bucks a year, which is way overpriced, however, some MMO games are free. What MMO games need to realize is that there are oodles and oodles of different ways to make some cash.
1. Banner Ads: Yes, by putting ads on a site, the site is required by law to pay the companies who put the ads up, it's how YouTube makes cash, and they dont charge one cent to put upload a video. Other companies and sites like google and Disney make big bucks from banner ads.
2. Donations: some people can donate money to help pay for your so called "further gameplay expansion", which I think is just false garbage they make up so they can make the companies look rich financially.
3. Rather than just charging people monthly, how about yearly if you so called want to make it, required, you make cash out of people buying your product, and that will have to be good amount of cash, every little bit helps, right. 20 bucks may not seem to much, but when you look at it yearly, you'll be surprised on the number it adds up to.
4. Other products. Take Mattel for example, they make games, but they make money by making other products such as toys, and in addition people buy the games to sort of double the amount of cash made.
5. Stock trading. May sound like some gambling thing, but if you know what your doing, you can gain a few hundred bucks to help you gain some big bucks if you do it yearly.
So, Galaxies people and other MMO game companies that charge 20 bucks a month to every consumer who buys your damn games. Look above and consider the ways I've said to make cash rather than charging people 240 bucks a year. Even charging people 10 bucks a month adds up to 120 bucks a year. Charge people 5 bucks a month to make 60 bucks a month.