User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-72.216.36.245-20130907213036/@comment-16047389-20130910214843

Considering that WoW has a population in the millions of active subscribers who pay the exact same amount, as well as the countless players who still pay subscriptions for other MMO's, I'd say you have a pretty odd definition of "nobody". If you can't afford a subscription fee, then you can't afford it. But plenty of people can and will. I've seen first hand what games become when they go from subscriptions to F2P. Not even worth playing anymore at that point. Good MMO's are a commitment, they are bigger than normal games and thus will cost more. Even when they first announced ESO, I knew it was gonna be subscription based. That's just how MMO's of this scale are.