Inspired by the lifetime subscription thread here, which was itself inspired by what Turbine did for LotRO, in terms of pricing, I offer a different look at the same thing…
Founder’s Pricing
You see, Turbine offered a $199 lifetime sub to “founders” of the game (ie: people who were in the open beta, and bought a pre-order of the game and entered a game code before open beta finished), but alternately offered founders a $9.99 a month fee.
Yep, $9.99 a month. No catches. No, “buy three months at a time and get each month at $9.99″; this was a genuine offer to pay a flat $9.99 a month. Later on it started offering $9.99 pricing to non-founders, but they HAD to buy in three month blocks.
So if BioWare did consider offering a lifetime sub to founders, I would strongly like to petition that it offers a reduced rate to those who don’t take up the lifetime deal… and, from where I was sitting, $9.99 was perfect. That is a REAL sweet spot for people.