Board Thread:Series Discussion/@comment-33006953-20190405174411/@comment-918376-20190405191052

According to official lore, Korea's Elder Tale was the only F2P version, so the SEA localization (which I believe would encompass all the countries you mentioned) is canonically P2P subscription-based. I'd assume prices would be adjusted accordingly.

That said, for your own purposes, you're free to change things up based on how you think it would work IRL. If you think a F2P model is more realistic for the SEA server, then go ahead.