User blog comment:Ikabite/The Elder Scrolls Online: P2P or F2P?/@comment-64.85.133.192-20130627111148

Honestly, They should make it F2P with limited capabilitie such as no trading, limited money and whatnot. If you decide to buy a copy of the game/pay a month sub you are upgraded to a Premium player, available to trade items, gold cap lifted and use the auction(if implamented). You keep the premium status. However if you continue to sub then you get even more purks, such as extra experience/rewards/special limited items. DCUO did this every well and still has top notch updates. They just require to you purchase "DLC" packs to access the content. The only problem with DCUO is that they have the gold cap on premium players. If that was lifted then the in game economy would balance out.