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Not surprised at all Elder Scrolls is a very established name just like Final Fantasy which also requires a subscription to play on all sysytems. If a company think people will pay they'll use a subscription based sysytem.

Realslimcraigey you get a month free with the purchase of the game but after that if you don't pay you can't play it, copy/paste from the GameStar article-

"The Elder Scrolls Online offers unlimited play for the first 30 days with the purchase of the game. The choice is yours to play as much as you want; hundreds of hours of content, PvP, etc - is all there for you to experience with the base purchase of the game. If you want to continue playing for hundreds of hours more after that first month you'll pay a flat fee for continued, unlimited access to the game."