Editing Tencent QQ (section)

===Membership===
In 2002, Tencent stopped its free membership registration, requiring all new members to pay a fee. In 2003, however, this decision was reversed due to pressure from other instant messaging services such as [[Windows Live Messenger]] (WLM) and [[SINA.com|Sina UC]].
Tencent currently offers a premium membership scheme, where premium members enjoy features such as QQ mobile, ringtone downloads, and SMS sending/receiving. In addition, Tencent offers "Diamond" level memberships. Currently, there are seven diamond schemes available:
* Red for the QQ Show service which features some superficial abilities such as having a colored account name.
* Yellow to obtain extra storage and decorations in [[Qzone]]—a blog service.
* Blue to obtain special abilities in the game-plays of QQ games.
* Purple for obtaining special abilities in games including QQ Speed, QQ Nana, and QQ Tang
* Pink for having different boosts in the pet-raising game called QQ Pet.
* Green for using QQ music—a service for users to stream music online. <!-- though sometimes consuming a lot of disk space due to caching. -->
* VIP for having extra features in the chat client such as removing advertisements
* Black for gaining benefits related to DNF ([[Dungeon Fighter Online|Dungeon & Fighter]]), a multiplayer PC beat 'em up video game.