User blog comment:Ikabite/The Elder Scrolls Online: P2P or F2P?/@comment-80.247.240.86-20130311130617/@comment-83.108.34.28-20130312040427

They would lose money big time that way, and such a solution is not gonna keep the game alive for long without EXP boosters or Crafting boosters etc.

I only play P2P games, why? Because i've got a bloody job and a monthly fee isn't that much. 12 euros/10£/$15. It's what you'd make from 1 hour of working.

Also, if the game does go F2P, you'd probably have to buy DLC i.e content and "episode" packs, so in the end you'd end up spending (wasting) more money on that business model than you would've with a P2P business model where you get free content and updates for a very small fee every month.

I've played my share of F2P games and i refuse to go back to it. In most of them if not all, i had to spend 10x a week compared to what i pay every month to play World of Warcraft, just to stay ontop of the game and in order to make any significant progress past a certain point. Yet people whine about P2P being expensive? No wonder the ingame economy on F2P games are horrible with that way of thinking... I'd never let people like that run my company or act as my book keeper.