User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-173.212.36.165-20130825204631/@comment-3347738-20130825220101

All of them? You mean just World of Warcrap? Tera, Rift, Guild Wars 2, SWTOR, and DCU Online are all free to play. (Well GW2 you buy once, but has no subscription) They are also all great games without the feeling of "pay-to-win". You can buy custom mounts/costumes/storage etc to enhance your experience if you feel it worth the price, but it proves to be no barrier to actual gameplay at all. TESO spat in the face of all their fans with the announcement of this atrociously expensive subscription. Do you really get your money's worth of paying 240 dollars for the FIRST year you play this game? And even more after that? Subscription-based MMOs are a dying breed, and this attempt at reviving it is just going to be met with disappointment and anger from fans. Who is actually STOKED that there's a subscription? Is there any reason why this is a GOOD idea?