Quote Originally Posted by Jennestia View Post
If you don't want to pay for it, simply don't it's that simple -- They aren't forcing you to pay like you're making it out to be. If you could happily play this game while it's free then you should be able to pay to play for it, otherwise, you're free to not pay for it if it's that upsetting to you they'll begin charging.
Its the fact that this will only worsen the games rep. News sites will pick it up again when they charge (possibly semi-reviewing the changes) like they did when the charging for the game came up, but will ultimately bring up what many people are saying "why are they charging for a game now?".

The population of the game will drop off pretty decently, its inevitable. With that comes the point of loosing plenty of customers who decide its not worth paying for a year before its really ready, potentially loosing them to 1) other MMOs (plenty of new big ones otw by then) and 2) plain old forgetting about it or loosing interest. They might make some money doing this, but it will be a drop in the bucket compared to what they can do if they keep everyone whos playing now around until 2.0, likely keeping them playing for years to come because they fixed it like they promised.

I just dont see it being a smart idea (and im far from being along on this idea) even charging a discounted amount until 2.0