Board Thread:Online Discussion/@comment-5107008-20130420101529/@comment-7153552-20130515161954

AlxCj wrote: if it were a one-time-pay bethesda will depend in new buyers to keep the server working, and we all know that the time will get where no one else will buy the game (or just a few), making bethesda having to close the game...

Microtransactions, expacs, major patches with new content, multiple account holders, multiboxers. . . that is all. Haha

I just mean that there's a lot of things to consider outside of the basic purchase of a game and subscriptions that make an MMO work long-term. Plus, once the initial overhead is met and they're purely making profit, all that profit can be turned around into the game again.