We love our loyal fans

You get a couple of benefits purchasing the game direct, even if it does cost a little more. You get immediate access to updates and patches - some portals never (or rarely) update the games once they've got them. If you hang around the forum, you get all the juicy news about upcoming releases. And if you participate in the forum enough, you'll eventually make your way into a guild (possibly), which makes you eligible for beta testing. Guild members also got to have a little more fun with Lord of Twilight and Gates of Night than they usually do with the games - if you learn some of the names of guild members here, you might just bump into someone you know when you're playing the game

The other benefit to YOU, of course, is that if you buy the games directly from Amanda, you never have to give them back if you one day cancel your Shockwave subscription

Cool, I just love Lord of Twilight, but, I am not partial to the main character much (Mel! I am a "girly-girl" and someone who doesn't like gowns *shudders* is out of my vocabulary) I like Stella, though