User blog comment:Knight of Camlorn/Elder Scrolls Online: Imperial Edition/@comment-1397781-20140218131231/@comment-85.165.255.66-20140307172936

That depends on your preferences. If you're just gonna play the game and don't care about extra stuff, the Imperial Eddition isn't all that special. And while I do agree that it is a lot more expensive than other pay-to-play games, it appears that this won't be pay-to-win, which makes it kind of worth it. WoW or Aion has a lot of micro transactions, cutting the monthly fee (in Aion's case eradicating it completely), but makes for a ridiculous system. If this game is not to have those nasty p2w microtransactions, it will never be f2p, so you'll kind of have to chose your poison. You can still play the singleplayer TES games. They are pay once, play forever.