User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-68.36.33.209-20130824234916

I don't think the subscription is that horriable. I mean, unlike a pure consol game, people are employed to keep up the servers and the new content that is produced. If that only came from the inital game sales we would be buying a $100 game. It's not any more expensive than WoW, FFXIV, CoH (when it was alive, God bless its soul) or most other big budget Online Games.