User blog comment:Jimeee/Elder Scrolls Online will be subscription based/@comment-169.204.239.170-20130913140537/@comment-16047389-20130919153929

FTP is what an MMORPG becomes when it starts to die. The only thing sustaining SWTOR are the few subscribers it has left. If everyone just stopped paying for it, they wouldn't be able to afford the server, and would shut it down.