What is the point of my $15 a month?

what you get ...
500 CC a month (so yeh the things in the store are free as long as you dont gamble your coins away)

Ok, endgame content up to lvl 50. I haven't heard anything stunning about the expansion, and though I'd have to do a little more research, I have heard that it lacks class story-lines which to me, is mostly what the game has been about. That feels to me less like "Episode 2" and more like a very long side bar of episode 1.

Let's be clear here.....it's THING, not things with an S. 500 CC a month might get you ONE new thing off the cm a month...and that's only if it's discounted, something older or something unpopular.

Hardly the massive bonus everyone seems to claim it is.

So you're implying subscribers have no choice but to burn through their CC stipend every month?

what you get ...

500 CC a month (so yeh the things in the store are free as long as you dont gamble your coins away)
12 character slots
The ability to send credits in mail between alts (this is a biggy for me)
No credit cap
Hide headslot / unify colours
6 quick bars
Unlimited warzones
Unlimited flashpoint rolls
Unlimited space missions
Artifact equipment
Event Equipment
Access to Operations
Access to things like Section X
Faster levelling & rested XP
Discounted expansions (assuming they continue that theme)
No restrictions on chat

... thats all i can think of right now. As someone who doesn't always have a lot of time to play this game, I often unsub for a while. Its fine for just occasional playing but when I actually want to really play the game properly I always resub. It makes a massive difference especially if your an alt-aholic like me. So yeh, personally i do think its worth £9 (or $15) a month, I mean thats like the price of a cinema ticket or two pints and a packet of crisps.....

what you get ...

500 CC a month (so yeh the things in the store are free as long as you dont gamble your coins away)
12 character slots
The ability to send credits in mail between alts (this is a biggy for me)
No credit cap
Hide headslot / unify colours
6 quick bars
Unlimited warzones
Unlimited flashpoint rolls
Unlimited space missions
Artefact equipment
Event Equipment
Access to Operations
Access to things like Section X
Faster levelling & rested XP
Discounted expansions (assuming they continue that theme)
No restrictions on chat

... thats all i can think of right now. As someone who doesnt always have a lot of time to play this game, I often unsub for a while. Its fine for just ocasional playing but when I actually want to really play the game properly I alway resub. It makes a massive difference especially if your an alt-aholic like me. So yeh, personally i do think its worth £9 (or $15) a month, I mean thats like the price of a cinema ticket or two pints and a packet of crisps.....

You can buy all of that for less than $15 in cartel coins. To express it another way, I could spend the same $15 a month and buy cartel coins and have access to any game feature available to subscribers that I select.

I agree with the OP. My subscription dollars pay for development which includes new races. The fact that nothing in patch 2.1 is free to subscribers is ominous and if there is another similar patch, I'm cancelling my subscription (and I'm a founder).

Then you would probably be making a better move for yourself financially if you dropped the sub and used cartel coins to buy whatever you want.

Isn't it awesome that this game gives the consumer a choice about exactly how much game they want to buy / how much they want to spend?

I mean, it's almost as if they're not forcing you into a one-size-fits-all money-grab style revenue model.

Are we sure this thing is run by the wicked, most evil company in America?

You can buy all of that for less than $15 in cartel coins. To express it another way, I could spend the same $15 a month and buy cartel coins and have access to any game feature available to subscribers that I select.

I agree with the OP. My subscription dollars pay for development which includes new races. The fact that nothing in patch 2.1 is free to subscribers is ominous and if there is another similar patch, I'm cancelling my subscription (and I'm a founder).