User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-96.19.141.74-20130930191907/@comment-16047389-20130930212542

WoW doesn't charge for items to make you better. Only cosmetic items like vanity pets or vanity mounts. GW2 doesn't have a subscription fee. The point of monthly fees is to avoid a Play to Win system like what SWTOR now has. If you're going to bash MMOs and subscription fees for being what they are, at least do some proper research instead of making stuff up. And, since vanity items don't improve your character's statistics, if someone wants to blow hundreds of dollars on vanity items, it's their own money and they can spend it how they want.