I dont mind Subscriptions or Cash shops, but not both in one game... not intrested.
I hate how subscriptions went from being a the evil required to play a everchanging game with a lot of other gamers in the same persistant world, to a entry fee that doesnt cover the extra content or all the items in the game.
The item shops ruined it all, the old free to play got revenue from adverts where you could pay a fee to remove the ads, now its you can play the game for free but the best stuff cant be earned in game but for just a few £££ you too can own this ultra powered sword of axing the shotgun of miniguns.
I was hooked into AoC by the marketing and hype and Funcom failed soooooo hard with that title, despite the intresting start of the game... it was when you first left Tortuga it went to hell quickly, buggy , laggy with bad PvP and a really stupid resource and crafting system... the much vaunted and hyped active combat system was flawed as hell, in such a obvious and basic manner... hitting your fancy combos and finally executing that powerfull finisher only to note that your opponent wasnt brain dead and had...stepped out of range of your whirling axes of doom, and set all thier 300 monsters, zombies and various horrors to attack you.
Sure its all fixed now ( maybe ) but it doesnt sort out the fact my cash was wasted on yet another mmo box ( along with Vangaurd:Saga of Heroes, LotrO (collectors ed. ), Aion and WoW )... bad reputation is bad.
Personally I gave up on MMO's for the most part and satisfy my occasional MMO twitch with the basic free2play asian style MMO's out there, and LoL ( looking at DOTA2, Tribes and Firefall as well ).