User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-17746527-20130910020310/@comment-5558140-20130911225559

right they can cradle you specifically like a baby and care about your problems but not care about anyone else. your logic is undisputable. its unbelievable how so much of the community are acting like babies over this. theres going to be a fee! if you don't think that fee is worth it, then don't pay it. but stop going like "oh i have kids, im too young i don't have a credit card, i have car loans, etc.." we all got problems, but most of us deal with it and work around a monthly payment rather than cry about it and ask them to work it around us. if your really trying to get them not to charge it, then stop complaining and just don't get the game when its released. that's your best way of combating it, but plenty of people will be getting it with a fee. there are no other MMO's to cite for this, WoW still has millions of subscribers. GW2 has no planned content support, and makes money from the gem store. TOR went F2P and now its worse than ever. Maple Story has a ridiculous cash shop, EVE is doing fantastic with subscriptions, and even more so with Dust whose cash shop is actually somewhat P2W. other games like City of Villains/Heroes went with a freemium bussiess model, and their servers closed last year. it's hard to call yourself a series fan when your so intent on not supporting it.