The fact the game has a monthly fee at all already scares away people, thinking that by raising the fee in exchange for more content would magically bring in more people into the game is insane - not only would that give skeptical people more reason to stay away from the game but the playerbase itself would most definitely shrink, maybe not by a big margin, but nobody wants to see their numbers go down.

But hey, at least we don't have lootboxes!