Alternate Uses
The term GTC, originally an acronym for Game Time Card or Game Time Code, now often simply refers to any one-use code for an online game. Some other uses include upgraded subscription cards, new account codes, and even codes you can redeem for in-game money. Many popular online games offer this great substitution for normal subscription methods; others, such as NCSoft, allow you to add this game time across all of their games you currently have an account for. Sony Online Entertainment offers game time cards that will work for any one of their online games, which allows you to easily find game time cards for even their lesser-known games.
EVE Online, developed by CCP Games, has innovated the Game Time Card world. By offering a secure transfer system for players to buy Eve Game Time Codes with the in-game currency ISK, they have built a system that allows players who cannot afford subscriptions to instead use the in-game currency to buy their game time from others who cannot afford to spend much time generating in-game currency.
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