Most probably ill subscribe 3 mos at a time

My thoughts - No Subscription.

Maybe do lawn for your neighbours, you may be able to pay for the monthly. Kidding aside. This aaa title is not designed for failure so f2p is not viable

Every game I've played with lifetime subscriptions made a mistake:

- in 2014, many new games will 'revisit' their business model. When that happens lifetime subscribers get upset.

- when you login to a subscription game, you meet people who like the game enough to continue paying for it. Lifetime subscribers aren't part of that group.

- lifetime subscribers tend to have (perhaps rightly) a view that they are 1st class citizens, and their views are more important than everyone else.

Otherwise, I assume there will be a yearly/quarterly subscription option (cutting down the payment processing fees should save zenimax a bit).

To be honest i'm not sure what i'll be doing in a year so i'll be damned if i'll shell out money that far ahead, i may not be even playing ESO after three months let alone 12 months.

Also shelling out for a year only to find after 6 months the game goes free to play = egg on face..

You do realize not all the subs they have now are the same ones they had at launch? I played at launch, so did a lot of my friends... out of like 10 only one person is still playing today and even he took a long break at some point... WOW may have slightly larger numbers... but i said AVERAGE... so look at the other MMO`s... most went F2P, hell EA even said most people did not want to pay 15$/month that`s why SWTOR went down, he may be right as you have seen a lot of people don`t want a sub.

You get -1 for thinking that the same people that played WOW at launch kept paying, then more came, nobody unsubbed until they reached 12 mil... LOL. They could still have a 6months/1year average sub per person... because as far as i know it has close to 100mil account made, but only 8 mil playing. Then, as i said, you have the other MMO`s where things are worse.

A lifetime sub from a guy that will pay the sub monthly(so no 1 year deals) for 2 years is them losing money... but a lifetime sub for a guy who would quit after 6-12 months is a win for them. And the numbers say that most players never sub for 2 years... if they did every MMO that launched would be a hit...

Think about that and stop misleading people.

That's funny. It's always the same story in these sub polls - the vast majority are happy as things are.

I'll concede the annual thing tho. I wouldn't offer a big discount, but the idea of making a small saving annually ie

Monthly fee: $15

Yearly fee: $180 -> 20% off -> $144

That would make some degree of sense. The things is, the vast majority would probably still pay monthly just due to the amount. I can see how it would be less risk to Zenimax though.