I know the thread is a necro but…
I have difficulty expressing how much I loath the subscription model of ‘selling’ software outside of a corporate environment.
I have no wish to be paying up to £36 per year for the game even if it would improve things for those players who don’t find P2P good enough.
Amen to your comment.
People who would buy a game pay once play for ever and then advocate for a "subscription model" later are what's commonly known as suckers... there's one born every minute.
It's o.k. to play the game your own way as long as you want to make everyone else pay a subscription.
Elite becomes subscription and, after decades with this franchise, I'm gone.
I will leave it for the suckers to play.