User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-15410713-20130904034052/@comment-5558140-20130905114252

also because no real 3D RPG like that had ever existed before. and no, ultima was not 3D at that time. although 3D is a bit of a loose term since the character models were still rendered 2D, point is, it was new and different back then. it takes a lot more to impress an audience now.

im not being zealous, im being wholly realistic about this, money is the point of a bussiness, and making a lot of extra money is what keeps developers in bussiness and making more of the games we love.