so now we know the reason for the lack of content

Troll post turns into 11 page warrrgharrrble.

Didn't BW come out and straight up say that the majority of their CM revenue was from subscribers? Which to me makes way more sense.

Regardless, as I said earlier, the mind kinda boggles at the thought of people who believe the game ain't worth a subscription, only to spend their dough on the CM instead.

Didn't BW come out and straight up say that the majority of their CM revenue was from subscribers? Which to me makes way more sense.

Contrary to popular belief, F2Pers are NOT the ones buying the most stuff from the CM. It was never clarified whether this means the bulk of purchases is strictly coming from subs or from a combination of subs and preferred status players. (Though this does beg the question of whether F2P is even beneficial if its still subs and sub CM purchases supporting the game.) They are tentatively (TENTATIVELY!) considering removing the limit on the amount of WZ's a F2Per can play in a given week, BUT only if they determine a way in which it doesn't negatively affect subs.

Yeah. Ever play a Nexon freebie? I tried one for a bit. It was a piece of crap and so were most of the players. It was amazing though to see how much stuff people bought, much of which had expiration timers on it. Pay for a gun that you only get for a few days for example.

Whether it's sensible for game companies or not, it's still dismaying from my player perspective to see anything that even slightly resembles creep towards F2P games like that one.

I believe they did at a cantina tour. I was looking for a link, but I don't know what to search for.
Found it (link):

Yeah Aika Online was like that all the gear for players have time limits (30 days) the Pran items were yearly but it was all pretty pricey as well. Their CS was all P2W items and people spent a **** LOAD of cash for them.

What a great idea for a game model. Wish I'd have thought of it. That said I hope the games I like would sink nobly beneath the waves before even considering doing anything like that.

Don't get me wrong the game itself was good but I just couldn't stand the P2W atmosphere it had.

Bioware has done an amazing job of avoiding P2W imo...an easy pitfall for any MMO to fall into.