Agreed with everything you said, money is the same regardless of when you joined however in comparison my 8 years of full subscription adds up to an awful lot of money compared to casual on off subscribers whenever there is an expansion or new players, it’s the money of long terms vets they’ve been able to invest into creating and evolving the game into what it is as a whole and yet only new and on/off players see the benefit in terms of free play time, extras, items. To put it bluntly they may aswell say to someone like me “don’t play/pay for a few months and then return” then we will give you something” which is crazy.