Microtransactions - how far is too far?

Because companies are getting more ballsy and unfortunately people are willing to pay for anything, just look at some of the posts in this thread.

At this point, ANY hint of heading down this road will cause an immediate cessation of subscription. I've already removed auto-renew, yet I wish to see the game improve to win another 3 months from me. However, I'll just say it plainly - This is a Subscription MMO. I expect to have access to the ENTIRE set of in-game content, COSMETIC CONTENT INCLUDED for the price of my subscription. Adding additional expenditures atop it is a breach of the tacit agreement of subscription. Yes, people can bleat on and on sheepishly that "durr that not what subscription mean etc." , but lets be reasonable...

In the West, the subscription model is the very thing that brought the MMO to prominence. Ultima Online, EverQuest, Dark Age of Camelot and even World of Warcraft's meteoric rise in subscriptions all came as a result of a pure subscription model (it wasn't until after their huge playerbase that Activision's tendrils started their inevitable greedspawn policies). This is why MMOs are a good value for entertainment - players pay a fixed (reasonable!) amount per month, between $5 and $15 or so, and have unlimited access to game content. Play as little or as much as you like. Spend your time obtaining just the right outfit or defeating the biggest bad guy. All content is open to you for your "entrance fee". I will NOT support the bastardization of this concept by the inclusion of additional fees once you've paid for entrance; its despicable double-dipping.

I don't care if "everyone else is doing it" - there's a reason why I've quit "everyone else" and have been less willing to invest in new games even on a trial basis. I don't want to see this greed validated by players who continue to support making games I would otherwise be interested in playing be more expensive and have less content? Unacceptable.

It is especially so for SWTOR which is so deficient in terms of content and polish compared to other modern MMOs and for the amount of money behind the project. It isn't feasible for ANYONE these days to say "oh no, but we need to charge you extra for cool graphics", but especially for EA/Bioware to even try to play poor saying "We need to do this to keep the game afloat", is twice as insulting. If the game is sinking, it is because of poor content and mismanagement. Think about it, there was a HUGE influx of players at launch and it retained relatively few because of its lack of solid polish and general cut-corners... now its going to say "We need to cut off more corners and sell them to you extra to make more money, when you weren't willing to spend 'less' earlier?" Come on now...

I am of this point of view. When a game turns into a "pay to win" I am gone.

Yeah this sums up my feelings on the subject

Aesthetics and fluff are fine for microtransactions.

How can that apply in TOR?

• Improved companion customizations
• Ship exterior and interior customizations
• Legacy fluff
• Character recustomization (like you do when you first create one) - including renaming
• Gear coloring
• Different color crystals (no different stats, but different colors)
• Unique looking orange gear (with no mods or anything, just like social gear)

As long as one does not pay for actual content or any cr*p like that, it is not too far. Given the game is already free to play.

You can't imagine how many would pay for a simple skin or special customization, which have no actual impact on the game itself. League of Legends is a prime example of that. It is a game which survives 90% because of skin sales, nothing more.
So such a method can be applied here as well. And I am sure no one will object.

quick name one pay to play mmo that has microtransactions that pay for items that aren't cosmetic