Quote Originally Posted by GothicNosferatu View Post
The difference between and Expansion and F2P is huge. When I pay for an expansion, I have ALL of the features and benefits that every other player has. The playfield remains the same for everybody for a reasonable fixed amount of dollars. With F2P, all bets are off. They can and will add items that give a substantial advantage in game that you will have to buy, most likely per character. This can and will end up costing a substantial amount of money in order to maintain a competitive edge in the game. As lifetime members, I feel we should get something for our investment to help minimize the need to spend excess dollars just to keep our game play on par with the competitive edge as it develops.

You are still rationalizing that what we paid for Lifetime membership as some sort of pre-paid card service that has now run out of funds. This is not what we paid for or invested in. And the gripe is that the business model has now changed and we are just thrown into the mix. This is what is unfair about this change. I have several lifetime memberships and have never seen something like this occur before.
You paid for a lifetime subscription. You still have a lifetime subscription. You purchased a convenience when you bought a lifetime subscription. If you meant to invest in Turbine, well, you actually couldn't because until it was bought by WB, it was privately held. You still can't invest directly in Turbine because you'd now have to buy WB stock, which would only be a indirect investment. You have no stockholder rights or investment rights. You have what you bought--a lifetime subscription.

The ground rules are changing for everyone. Everyone is in exactly the same "mix". Except that because of your lifetime subscription you get 500 free points a month that give you a competitive advantage over everyone else who must pay twice for their points, a subscription rate and the cost of the points.

Have a cookie.