Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
If you have any reason to access the server, then pay the subscription for that month. Only you can decide whether it's worth that subscription fee. But if you don't, then you can just wait until it's at the end and try to do all the content in one month if you think that would make it worth the subscription fee.

For me, I play the game for story and battle content, and that hasn't changed with the various expansions. I still get dungeons, trials, raids, and alliance raids, all of which add to my growing collection of potential results in the various roulettes, and I get the various story quests that accompany these contents. And they're all released at a nice, predictable pace. That means, I always have a reason to log in every month, even every week if not every day, even with no house, and that means the subscription fee is worth it.

Thus, the subscription fee is there for you to decide if there is something you want to do in the game for that month. It's not tied to what content is released because that's on their end with their own schedule. Alliance raid, for example, will still be in .1, .3, and.5 whether or not you subscribe throughout the expansion or only for parts of it.
I will pay as little as possible because I really do not approve of the monetization system for the content (or lack thereof) we are getting, but as a paying customer, I will criticize it because I know we should be getting more.

They get away with it because the majority of the active playerbase doesn't know, care, or think about that issue at all, or even enough to make the choice to spend less on the game, that doesn't make it any less of what very much feels like a rip-off.