I was actually going to make a long post on the pitfalls to the new model touching upon "Whales" and "Player segregation through zoned content", but
@Whiskybob actually beat me to it with a couple videos. (who i would like to thank) These videos where buried a couple pages in so lets bring them up front c:
I would highly recommend that ZOS take these to heart, because it is the pitfalls of many games. On top of that, this actually hits on the topics many of your users are concerned about, if you take a look through the threads of the past days.
As for the fellow community that has been vocal, I would like to give my thanks because if we as a community are not vocal how is ZOS supposed to know what we want?
Touches on your model with crown store pitfalls common across many games.
Touches on f2p, but can pertain to yours with player segregation pitfalls.
Edited by Grasshopper on January 23, 2015 2:36PM Bug and Theorycrafter since beta.