User blog comment:Ikabite/The Elder Scrolls Online: P2P or F2P?/@comment-108.57.57.180-20120703212519/@comment-24.140.53.206-20130114074138

monthly fee is not to just run the servers, but to monitor current content, run events, create new content(dungeons, pvp matches, etc) pay once and done does not provide us with dynamic content. buying the game helps recoupe the cost of creating the current content, but what pays for the rest?