Its unfortunate that so many people who I knew playing Guild Wars had the same complaints. I really wanted this subscription model to get popular and evolve into some sort of workable industry standard, but now developers are going more towards micro-transactions like this as opposed to a whole product to pay for once.

People have to feel like their game is evolving and going somewhere with some kinda of free patches and updates, otherwise most players will find it stale over time and move on to a more active developer.