User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-3124449-20130827040214/@comment-16454035-20130827214216

As much outrage as there is over this, there are FAR more people who were expecting it, even happy with a subscription. The reason it seems that so many are against it is because the ones that are fine with it aren't screaming about it online. People have gotten spoiled by all of the f2p games that have come out recently, but $15 a month for an mmo isn't an exorbitant price. Remember, around 8 years ago WoW charged $15 a month for a subscription, and $15 was a lot more back then. Some people are complaining about paying whichever consoles fee for online gaming, plus this is too much, but Zenimax is in talks with Microsoft from what I hear to make ESO playable without having an Xbox Live subscription. I'm not sure about Sony, but I'm sure they will follow suit. Personally, I'm fine with $15 a month. $15 is the average price of buying lunch, it's not that much. More money means they can do a lot more with the game. More expansions, more quests, all of that good stuff. There are tons more fans that are still going to get and play the game than there are who won't buy it.

Having said that, I do think that they should offer a free version, sort of like Runescape did, where you don't get everything that you would with a subscription, and you have to pay for any expansions you want. Everybody thinks that these companies owe them something, but they don't. They don't own any of us anything, and with all of the stuff TES has given me over the years, I am happy to pay $15 a month to play the newest installment.