Maybe it's time to move to a full F2P model

I disagree. I say drop the F2P model altogether and either go back to a Sub-only model, OR go the Guild Wars 2 route where the player needs to make a one-time purchase (minus expansions), and then they get full access to the game and all features. Extras would come from the CM.

If you need more cash to hire some devs, feel free to boost the cost. The people who actually care about the game will pay whatever you want to charge.

Sarcasm???

Sarcasm???

Nope. If they bump it to 30/month I'll stick around. I suspect you would too.

I wouldn't. Much as I love the game, and as much as I think it's worth the current monthly subscription, I don't think it's worth 3 times the industry standard. I'd pay once in a while to binge through several content patches and make good use of my unrestricted credits while it lasted, but after that I'd leave the game again until I once more had several content patches/expansions to play through. I suspect a lot of people would do the same. And I really don't think people dropping that amount of cash once or twice a year is more profitable than having them consistently pay smaller amounts.

This thread seems to be based on some mock altruism.

"I'm quitting the game because <reasons> and no longer wish to pay! But you should make it fully F2P, for "others", but really so I can continue to check back in and play without paying a dime because while I no longer wish to pay, I don't fully want to quit either and I hate the lack of perks as F2P."

But maybe you're sincere, I don't know you well enough. Just getting a vibe that while you're waving the quit-flag, you don't actually want to walk away because the game still matters to you. I get that, I'm walking that line myself and it sucks but things are what they are. Also seems a lot of your reactions come from a place of disappointment and frustration, still trying to fight for improvement with one foot out the door already.

We can debate for hours what the best course of action would be for Bioware, perhaps one or two of us are actually experienced enough to know what would and would not work but in the end, it doesn't matter. Bioware and EA will follow the money and for as long as their current model works, they're going to milk it. When it stops working, you may get your full F2P while the prices on the CM soar because they won't stop trying to grasp for every single penny. It's out of our hands in any case.

Again do you? You said it yourself they are under a strict NDA. So unless you work for bioware/EA and you're a higher up, what do you really know yourself?

Is it mockery? Partially. Is it sincere? Again, partially. Is it disappointment and frustration? Definitely.

This camel's back has been broken, finally, by the ineptitude of the devs. I'm also tired of the trickery and deceit.

And for those two individuals who are trying to troll me, I will explain why I am still able to post. With the last patch, I logged in and realized that I could work out 3, maybe 4 characters for conquest. I thought if it's like this each week, it won't be too terribly bad and I could live with it. So I resbuscribed. Oh how they fooled me. After logging in last night, and realizing that all of those changes Musco said would be in future conquests, after 5.8a, weren't there, I just logged off and cancelled again. Since my money's been paid for the month, you get the pleasure, or displeasure, of seeing my posts. Feel free to put me on your ignore list if you don't want to see anything from me. You won't hurt my feelings one bit.

Well I'm glad you're still here! We need more people after all, not less!