i hope they don't fall into that road, that has potential to destroy everything.
I'll gladly pay AAA price for the game, just don't add micro-transactions, login rewards, all that FTP crap please, you can build a good game, get full price, build a good base that later you can use to sell expansions, new maps and missions, etc..., keep updating the core game, keep adding mercs, but not in a way that it renders older ones useless.
Just give us a good game and everyone will gladly pay for it.