I've been spending most of what little free time I have right now. Playing Secret World and was thinking about subbing up when I noticed the lifetime sub option.
So I was wondering, is anyone here a lifetime subber? If so, if I sub up that way. Will I get any new content that comes out free, will I have to save monthly points that's given to me to buy the new content or will I have to pay real money for new content when it comes out?
Do I even get a certain amount of points amonth and if so how many?
Thanks for any advice and take care. 
I took the lifetime sub. I figured the game would last at least a few years to make the $200 a safe bet.
A Lifer get access to a set of starter gear and weapons that gives you a leg up when starting. Nothing overpowering but better then what you initially find. Beyond the two weapons you can equip, you can gear up 9 types of booster, or what they call Talismans. There is the Head Totem, 3 Major Talismans, and 3 Minor Talismans. Each type comes in 3 different "flavors": focus on Health, focus on Attack stats, or focus on Defensive stats. So the Lifer gets different flavors of the Head Totem, 3 different flavors of each of the 3 Major Talismans, and the 3 different flavors of the 3 Minor Talismans. You decide what flavor of talisman you want to equip depending on what kind of build you are going for (aka, DPS style builds will favor the talismans with mor attack rating compared to Tank builds going for more Health).
Lifers also get a monthly stipend of Funcom points to spend in the item store. New issues are not automatically free, you still have to buy them from the store, but I've never had an issue with the stipend I get. I get 1200 a month. New issues have been 960. Supposedly the next issue, Issue 9, will be a free one.
One thing about issue cost is that you are not paying for any new game mechanics introduced by that issue, that is free. What you purchase is added missions specific to that issue. These missions reward very well and give a lot of new depth to the already complex storyline. I have not regretted buying issues. But don't feel you have to run off and buy them. There is so much content to go through you just save up your points and buy these extra missions later on.
All in all, while not CoX, I've been very happy to play TSW. If anyone wants to run with Illuminati RPers, give Bureaucrat a ring. We run on Wednesday nights starting at 8pm EST. It is currently a small group, but we were from the Virtue villain group Entropy Legion. Now the Legion is (sorta) in TSW.
