The Kickstarter Campaign for Shadowrun Online now offers the first video footage from a prototype of the upcoming Shadowrun game, as well as another video from Cliffhanger Productions explaining more about the game's story modes. There is also this update explaining they've "solved" the "free-to-play" issue with their new plans for a "campaign model," which is not free-to-play. Here's word on plans to adopt the Guild Wars model:

Following the business model of games like Guild Wars, we’ll also offer the game as a standard client based PC/Mac/and iOS/Android tablet game with with all items that give any advantage in the in-game store bought with in-game "Nuyen" you earn while playing Shadowrun Online! So basically, you buy the game ONCE, really OWN the game, and can play it for as long as you want WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGES. There won’t be any monthly payments either. Like with a pen and paper game new campaigns, cities and other content and feature updates are then sold afterwards as “Add-ons” in packs, but it’s totally up to you if you want them or not. You can play with the basic package as long as you want. We call this model the “Campaign model" since you will have full access to a complete campaign with your Kickstarter pledge, or after launch, with a retail purchase of Shadowrun Online.