the reason for this thread is because someone was complaining that a hotmail (or live) email acct took too long to set up. Why? I don't know. I have a few accts with them, one for work, one for friends, one for play, one from back in high school. Anyway, if youve had to set up a new account recently for any reason (mine being work related cuz they aint emailin me at cchamber) you would know that it takes less time than to apply for a nexon account. Maybe his connection was slow at the time, or maybe ....i dont know. But iqarus is right, any email service will work, it doesn't really matter, just somewhere to reply to nexon and activate the account with them. Hell, my game acct with live is nothing but updates, trash, and nexon annoucements.