Oh that is interesting, I had not seen that article. Nice find.

Did he bring up F2P or were they just asking him about it? I mean I guess he can't just rule it out because he wants to cover his bases I'm sure.

That would be a massive undertaking for them to change to micro-transactions though. Would they do it? I wonder. They said 80%/90% of the playerbase requesting it might make them consider it? How many are actually asking for F2P though? I have no idea. If I were to guess though I'd say they were just a vocal minority.