Quote Originally Posted by Glumposneak View Post
Personally I don't like the way its often implied the free to play players are the ones causing all the problems.

I have a liifetime account, while the store is obviously a bit too intrusive I do think if the game hadn't gone F2P it wouldn't be here any more. Sure there are some problems, bugs not being fixed and it does often look like Turbine are milking us for all they can get and bugs that don't affect us spending money in the store go to the bottom of the pile.

But since its gone F2P I have met many new kin members, the vast vast majority being polite, helpful players, fun to be around and fun to group with.

A few of my kin are lifetime members, many are VIP and many are F2P. I have met just as many rude VIP players as I have F2p and thankfully both those numbers are pretty low.
I completely agree that F2P vs VIP is another one of those annoying and pointless community divisions, like groupers vs soloers, casual vs hardcore, etc. The forums are full of threads that are nothing more than 'the way I play is better than the way you play so everything is all your fault' statements, and that is unfortunate and unhealthy for the community. F2P happened, it has its pros and cons, but no one type of player is breaking the game or hurting the community, and there are great people and huge trolls among every subscription category or style of play. I do think that f2p sometimes gets mentioned as a timeframe reference, because lots of unrelated game and community site changes happened around that time, so it's not always meant as a cause-and-effect judgment. But nobody should be blamed for playing the game in the way that best suits them.