F2P here. And another who will not be paying for this game again.
I played from September '04 (beta) until July '09. The game eventually started becoming less and less fun for me to play and definitely not worth continuing to pay $15 per month. The thing that really kept me playing as long as I did was PVP. When I quit, I tried to find a free-to-play game that had a similar PVP experience. I couldn't find any. Not even games that "thousands of people" claimed had "epic end-game PVP." What did this "epic end-game PVP" entail? 2 players standing in place, spamming skills until one was out of health; nothing else. That's not epic PVP. Then I saw an internet ad saying that WoW was now free to play up to level 20 and here I am.