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

It has already been explained to you that other games do exactly what is suggested and do not have any of the problems that you are referring to. The trivial "free" subscriber grant of 500-700 CC per month (actually pretty expensive considering you pay $15 to get them) changes nothing about that.

I had actually discussed this with my husband a while back -- and I was wondering about a few things.

What if you made a "subscription pack" item? Something that requires you to complete an RMT (much like the purchase of CCs) before being awarded the tradeable item. You could maybe even have multiple levels of it -- 1 month, 2 month, 3 month -- and maybe with or without the CC stipend.

I think doing this, with NO CC stipend, would be great. Maybe $10 for a "basic subscription" item that you can sell on the GTN or gift. That way, Subs can't use "free" CCs towards it, and you're also being given yet another subscription option (aside from Sub, Preferred, F2P).

Maybe?

As far as Plex/CCs -- maybe do the same thing as I said above. Have a "Cartel Coin Pack" that you purchase with an RMT (like you do now) that grants you a tradeable item. Once used, CCs are added to your account. But you would be free to sell these packs, and by requiring an RMT, BW wouldn't be losing money.

Would be interesting, to say the least. I wonder if they'll consider anything like this in the future -- or if they've already had discussions on it.

It puts 250,000,000 cartel coins into the system PER MONTH for zero extra dollars. Bioware would be INSANE to implement this as described. I feel confident they are smart enough not to do it. You can discuss it for another 1,000 pages if you want, but they're still not going to do it. Fortunately.

If they were stupid enough to actually consider such a blatantly selfish suggestion, they would honestly deserve to go out of business though.
But yes, fortunately they are much smarter than that.

What if you made a "subscription pack" item? Something that requires you to complete an RMT (much like the purchase of CCs) before being awarded the tradeable item. You could maybe even have multiple levels of it -- 1 month, 2 month, 3 month -- and maybe with or without the CC stipend.

Sssssshhh, guys, I want someone else to pay for my subscription. I am now 1000% behind this idea.

That also works. EvE calls them PLEX (one month) and Exchangeable Time Codes (can be had for any multiple of 30 days I think).

Adding the in-game purchase of CC suggests that Bioware is at least thinking of taking the next step and doing what's suggested here at some point, whether they sell game time straight up for CC (and make CC tradeable in-game through the GTN) or sell some sort of new tradeable in-game token that represents game-time.

You can discuss it for another 1,000 pages if you want

What Bioware is doing is simply making CC more easily accessable.
And it will probably help them reel in more cash from "impulse" buyers, since it will make the transactions much easier and faster - so they won't change their minds before completing their purchase.

No, since the "cash" in this case is free credits issued in droves by the game itself. Really all this comes down to is people subsidizing the subscriptions of others, at that point just buy them a sub and call it good. Best way this game survives is not making Cartel Coins more available, but rather more seductive and attractive so that people are more willing to buy them. In order to make money you must convince someone else to part with theirs. Making someone part with their funny money (in game currency) does nothing for the growth of the company and the game itself.