Buy Game Time for CC + Buy/Sell CC on GTN = WIN

I highly doubt it. If you are so magnanimous, why don't you just find some F2Pers and start paying for their subs? My suspicions are that you would actually quit paying your sub and begin purchasing CCs from the GTN to pay your sub. In fact a great many people would, it would actually cost Bioware subs.

I understand what you are saying in the fact that the Cartel Coins are not self generating. I took this as you would buy Cartel Coins directly from Bioware (instead of buying with real money, we would simply give them in game credits).

I pay for a subscription every month, and as a result I give Bioware $15 a month. If these features happened, I would still pay for a subscription, but I would give them a lot more than $15 every month, because I would buy a lot more cartel coins than I do right now. In fact I'd probably pay for two or three subscriptions total, but they would be for accounts that other players would get to enjoy. And in return I would spend more time doing what I like to do during the limited play time that I have.

No, I'm not going to just give you money. But if you have credits you don't want, I'd be happy to trade you CC for them. In fact I'd happily give you $1 worth of CC for every 1 million credits you're willing to trade. If we do that 20 times, you have a free month of game time.

Of course we can't do that now, because there is no way to transfer CC between accounts, and selling credits for real life $$$ via out of game transactions is a bannable offense. But if Bioware did what is suggested in the OP, then this could happen (and in other games it does, every day, to the endless delight and satisfaction of all involved).

See how that works?

No, I'm not going to just give you money. But if you have credits you don't want, I'd be happy to trade you CC for them. In fact I'd happily give you $1 worth of CC for every 1 million credits you're willing to trade. If we do that 20 times, you have a free month of game time.

Of course we can't do that now, because there is no way to transfer CC between accounts, and selling credits for real life $$$ via out of game transactions is a bannable offense. But if Bioware did what is suggested in the OP, then this could happen (and in other games it does, every day, to the endless delight and satisfaction of all involved).

See how that works?

Also right now, once you convert dollars into cartel coins, there's no avenue to get dollars back out. There is no "real world value" to credits.

Also right now, once you convert dollars into cartel coins, there's no avenue to get dollars back out. There is no "real world value" to credits. Everything you "own" in SWTOR actually belongs to Bioware, including your characters. Those who doubt that ought to read the ToS; it says so in there quite clearly. But if you establish a way to convert credits and coins into real world currency, or even pseudo-currency in the form of the ability to pay for the game with credits, it's a whole new ball game. If you think 'gold farming' is a problem now, just wait until you create this back channel for turning credits into dollars and euros. Not only that (and we've seen this before) we will attract the attention of people like the IRS, who will see this as a revenue source. In other words, this scheme will generate a whole lot of unintended consequences.

Best to let this sleeping dog lie, I think.

No, I'm not going to just give you money. But if you have credits you don't want, I'd be happy to trade you CC for them. In fact I'd happily give you $1 worth of CC for every 1 million credits you're willing to trade. If we do that 20 times, you have a free month of game time.