If Bio/EA used microtransactions, what do you want/not want to see?

Through optional and funky things being sold via the cash shop. If you're saying that a game is free to play, then that means there is no significant part of the game that requires payment. If that is not the case, what you're actually providing is a 'trial' or 'demo', or simply something that isn't completely free.

EDIT:And I should point out that this is straying from the original point - that what has happened with STO shows that a game going F2P risks development being focused mostly or solely on things that can be sold via the cash shop - which you indicated wouldn't happen when you said:

The exit because I won't be hangin around.

Amen.

No game with an MT shop has ever been worth playing.

Argue all you want.

I wouldn't mind µxactions but only if sub packages were also available because I wouldn't use them except maybe for cosmetic upgrades. Paying real money for unlocks to advanced leveling, advanced crafting, epic quest chains, dungeon/instance privileges, cosmetics, additional bag & bank space and end game access will easily add up to cost more than a monthly sub does. The day an MMO grants unlocks that are exclusive to µxactions is the day I find another game to play. I love this game, but µxaction-exclusive deals would ruin it for me.

This right here. Microtransactions are a stupid idea. In the long run many people spend more money buying things this way than they would with a monthly subscription. No microtransactions, thank you.

I think the problem most people have with micro transactions is that they will lead the game to being pay to win and/or it will cost more than a monthly subscription to play through the same content (had it been released under a sub model).

Now it is possible that a good MT system could be designed that did not induce a pay to win scenario and wasn't extortionate, but nobody with a shred of sanity would believe that EA would be the people to implement it

The entire point of having MT is to maximize profit right? While it is possible to make a good MT system in theory, why would a company stop short of "pay to win" if the entire idea was there to maximize profits? Once MT is in place it is just a cost/benefit analysis of do we lose or gain more profits going "pay to win".

... WoW used to only have their MT be vanity pets and mounts etc. Now for the right price you can skip the first 80 levels, a special mount, get an entry to the Beta and a copy of Diablo III. That is not the way I want this game to go.

I have two jobs, a family, other hobbies. Quite simply, I'd like to see things I can't get that other people can get by grinding, namely simple non-game-changing things like RP emotes, cosmetics, Legacy items, that kind of thing.

What I would NOT like to see? Having to re-buy things that are already mine (like my character names), map locations that aren't connected to exclusive/new content, etc. I also don't want to have to pay "real money" in ADDITION to Level X + Legacy X + 150,000 in-game creds. That's just overkill.

The day microtransactions are brought into the Old Republic is the day I'm leaving.

That is the day developers will go from "what can we do so the players have more fun and keep paying to play the game" to "what can we do to annoy players and sell them the way around the annoyance in the store".

I play a game to have fun, not to be nagged for money. Already have wife and kids for that :-P

If microtransactions were brought in, the only thing I want to see is a continuing full subscription (or even lifetime subscription) option for unlimited access. Not interested in playing otherwise.