Sooo, basically all of you that disagree with the op that Turbine's stance of making it less desirable to pay a monthly fee think that's not a problem for the future of the game?
I keep reading on the forums how all these f2p players are "farming" the system(rerolling characters just long enough to get all the easy deeds done) to get enough TP so they don't ever pay real money, but those who have and so far are continuing to faithfully pay the monthly fee are "greedy" for wanting some of the new content without having to pay extra for it... oh wait, we already are!!
Try taking off your rose coloured glasses, even the lifetimers are finally seeing the forest.