This discussion has been had in the release of TTK...most people that cared about it left by now, and both Luke and Deej (the latter, on the forums) misspoke and angered some customers in terms of that and the bundled DLC price (the threads on it were a shitfest, not even sure if they're still visible or available). Right now, you're just going to deal with people who are perfectly fine with the fact that you buy the base game, and a DLC, then you're completely barred from playing the DLC content and several parts of the base game just because you don't have the latest released DLC. It's a horrible model that is neither fully subscription or fully DLC based, but a hybrid of both. And going on year 3, we're used to it by now.