Hi! I'm a completely new player who downloaded the game on Saturday, tried it out F2P on Sunday, and (having established that it actually works on my low spec machine) started subscribing yesterday. I'm liking what I'm seeing and I've heard quite a few people in the general chat stating that, like myself, they'd only started playing the game within the last week and had since subscribed.
I'd have been here a lot sooner (as I've been interested in this game for a while but was never sure it would work on my computer) so thank God for a random comment by a guild member in my previous MMO (I'd been playing there for three years) who mentioned that SWTOR went F2P some months ago. I must have missed the publicity, i guess. Ah well, I'm here now and that's all that matters!