Tyrphanax said:

I still find it incredibly hard to justify making a (not great) MMO out of a single player game. If I was just in it for the SP, I'd be annoyed that I was having to pay extra money per month for features I didn't care about, and as a person who wanted a good MMO, I was annoyed that I paid for a single player game with derivative, crappy MMO elements.

Well the point I am making is that the initial price of the game is extremely low and in no way reflects the actual value of the single-player content. I think the amount of story content is worth, as I said, at least $200 (which is 4 times the initial game value). The rest is paid with the subscription. So in reality, as a SP-only person, you don't really pay anything extra. You just gradually pay what you didn't pay in the beginning (unless one is a really slow player).

But yes, generally you are right. I would probably still rather pay the higher initial price and then be able to play it whenever I wanted (even when they close the serves eventually).