My thoughts:

1) The F2P portion of this game is amazing.  The leveling in this game, at least the first time per faction, is second to none.

2) I bought the game at launch but didn't subscribe except for one month in July.  I get no cartel points for buying the DD on launch.  That's a big oversight in my opinion.  So there's no reason for me to sub just before it goes F2P as I'd only get 150 cartel points and have to spend another $15 for the sub.  LOL, no thanks.

3) If their only unlocks are from subscribing, well they aren't getting any money out of me.  But if they allow single purchase unlocks for things like characters, inv space and races, I may consider paying.  But that's not likely until they add massive multiplayer space combat.

Originally posted by RavingRabbid

Originally posted by Eluldor
What happens if I already subscribed for 3 months and unlocked a legacy race on each side, and then try to turn my former account to a F2P account? Are they going to allow me to use those races and the character I already made with them. Guess I'll have to read up on former acounts transitioning to F2P.

Im pretty sure you keep what you've earned. Should be a given. It would be crappy if you couldnt.

Have you MET the jackasses running SWTOR?

Ok, so they are going to be charging for world quests. The titles on the Cartel Shop menu are:

"Packs" - Like lotro quest packs

"Cosmetic"

"Unlocks" - Slots, Races, Inventory Slots etc.

"Equipment"

"Consumables"

Right, so how many worlds do you think they'll give the content for free for? Probably starter worlds + Coruscant and Dromund Kaas. I just can't accept that BW would offer the most appealing part of their game (the questing process) completely free of charge. I would appreciate any other speculation on what "packs" could mean. 

Originally posted by Cameron27

Ok, so they are going to be charging for world quests. The titles on the Cartel Shop menu are:

"Packs" - Like lotro quest packs

"Cosmetic"

"Unlocks" - Slots, Races, Inventory Slots etc.

"Equipment"

"Consumables"

Right, so how many worlds do you think they'll give the content for free for? Probably starter worlds + Coruscant and Dromund Kaas. I just can't accept that BW would offer the most appealing part of their game (the questing process) completely free of charge. I would appreciate any other speculation on what "packs" could mean. 

From:

Community Q&A: Free-to-Play Edition

http://www.swtor.com/blog/community-qa-free-play-edition

Several players asked: Can you give us more detail about the restrictions on Free-to-Play members? If not, when can we expect more details?

Damion Schubert: Giving more information about these limitations is a core part of our communication efforts over the next few weeks. Our goal is to allow Free-to-Play members to play the game from levels 1 to 50 and encounter most of the class and world content along the way. However, it is equally important to us that the subscription members will have access to a significant number of convenience features that make the game easier to play - leveling speed, bank access, inventory size are all good examples. Once these details are published, I think that most players familiar with the game as it is now will agree that while Free-to-Play members will be getting a good experience and the subscription members will be getting a substantially improved gameplay experience.

It might just come down to what exactly the purple part above means.

Most of the world content?  Maybe freemium players can't finish the world stories and need to unlock them?  Maybe some world quests are unavailable?  Can't do dailies?  Some unncessary portions of maps off limits?

Most of the class content?  Romance stories are in the cash shop?  Only some companions available while questing?

Just speculation based on a very ambiguous quote.

One thing I dont like is that ANYONE can play levels 1-15 free with no time limit except if you bought the game for 60 dollars and let your sub ran out that account cant play levels 1-15. Atleast on rift every account can play levels 1-20 and starter areas not just the new accounts that haven't spent one cent.

I think I'm going to resubscribe for a while now, before it goes F2P. You never know what F2P will do to a game.

I still have a hard time believing they're giving the story content away for free though. Might it be that they're confident the system they have will be able to "annoy the players enough to make them pay"?

Oh, well. On the sunny side, I think it's really going to stand out among other F2P experiences you can get with the amount of content and expensive production.

I wonder if it'd have been better for them had they made the game B2P with frequent story-content DLCs.

For some reason that video has me missing SWTOR, and considering re-subing...

Odd.

so, they made a video, but dont realy sad anything new in it. 

All of the info were already put 2 month ago. 

Originally posted by Asamof
when you pay to unlock new races, you're actually paying to just unlock new skin colors for humans

Exactly.