[quote name='HisDivineShadow']Doesn't the client still include one free month? If so, $20 includes one free month. If you use the trial, you can go to level 15, then pay whatever the client costs then to continue forward and use the free month.
Cheapest way I suppose is to level all your characters to 15, then activate your client and get your free month afterward, pushing from 15 to the end. That will involve you waiting until they release the free trial though.
Still, the free month means you're essentially paying $5 for the client, $15 for the month, and that's not a horrible deal for someone who just wants to play for a month because they're playing it like a SP game. And it's very, very easy to play this as a SP game since you can find an empty server (easily) and rarely have anyone bother you due to instances everywhere.[/QUOTE]
If you can wait, that is definitely the way to go. I didnt, & snagged it at FRY's using a price match. (Amazon has it for $20 as well). It will NOT take you long to hit the level 15 cap at all. I played for 5 hours last night & hit 11.
The game is a blast btw. Nothing new, no reinventing the wheel, but for an MMO, its a damn fine package. The immersion is absolutely top knotch.