The game is going to keep expanding and if you don't buy the expansions, you'll be left behind. This is really an all-in or don't play kind of game. I mean, I guess you could keep playing 1.0.X, but you'd get really bored IMHO. House of Wolves [i]might[/i] fix a lot of things, but it's not going to be free and will likely add more paywall events in the game. I committed to at least buying all of the 1.X content. I didn't see much point to playing it if I wasn't going to get all of it. It's still a lot cheaper than WoW (which I still pay for but haven't played much since August).