What is the point of my $15 a month?

And you're ignoring the fact that extra $7-$12 grants it on all my characters. The best 2.1 is going to do is grant access to all characters on one server. I'd rather pay $25 and have account wide, versus $13-$18 (plus whatever extra to get it server wide). Once again, the competition does it, and does it better in my opinion.

Actually no, it will be account wide.

No, all characters on all servers.

Your $15/month pays for the development of new content and features that you then have to pay for, again.

Then when you re-buy what you already paid for, you are subsidizing the many thousands who are playing for nothing so that their presence can pad the account numbers to improve the perception of the game's popularity.

Feel better now?

Collection unlocks are account wide, just like other cartel account unlocks

I stand corrected. Collections are account wide, after you pay to unlock that ability, with the price varying per item. At that point, we will be able to compare it. While it'll most likely be cheaper than Blizzard's store for WoW (can't honestly see being charged $7-$12 for this ability), it is still quite a bit more than DCUO's cash shop. Add on the charge for race changes, color changes, etc, etc, DC Universe Online does it better (and has since launch / addition of cash shop). Which gets back to what I have said for awhile, the competition does it, and does it better.

Edit: and this is comparing to another F2P MMO

Apparently not better enough to stiff SWTOR and steal all it's customers.. Oh, wait... we are talking about fluff here again, not playable content.

Simple solution: Either cope with it.. or play the competition.

Those are two logical choices for adults to work with when confronted with something they don't like and have no actual control over.

Complaining about it in a gaming forum does nothing except perhaps give you a 30 second slot in the internet forum fame game.

Except WoW, the biggest competition on the market. BW already said the maximum cost to account wide unlock something will be 600 CCs. So if you bought the $40/5500 CC pack the most it would cost you just over $17 to buy a mount and unlock it for the whole account.

Let me ask you this, as I don't play the game, can you resell store items for in-game currency to other players in DCUO?

Why is it you have to get rude and snarky? I have not said anything other than express my opinion, and had no problem admitting I was wrong. This was pointed out when I said it was server, not account. I do not treat others that way, and ask for you to stop.

Yes, it's fluff. I have bought the all the fluff on Blizzard's store for WoW. I have bought all the fluff stuff on the cash shop for DC Universe Online. Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of 3 MMO's I currently have a subscription too. I do not see the harm in pointing out, as a consumer and customer, where a competitor does it, and does it better. It does not matter if it is a new house I recently bought, a new sports car, television, I can keep going. Yep, "it is just fluff". It is about getting the best deal for what I spend my money on. Nothing more, nothing less.

In regards to the stiffing Star Wars: The Old Republic of its customers, that is conjecture. At least from my point of view. I do not believe Star Wars: The Old Republic is neither doing as bad as the forums would have me believe, nor as good as the forums would have me to believe. The truth, in my opinion, lays some where in the middle.

Nope. It probably never will be either (based upon what the developers have said). The most anything has ever cost on their store is $9.99.