While I do find having to enter my credit card into an 'active subscription' to be both dishonest business practice and borderline illegal (probably hidden somewhere in the EULA) - as it was promised to come WITH my purchase of the game and NOT a subscription (I don't see ANYWHERE it has said otherwise previously). My only question is this:
Do my free 30 days come the day I've subscribed? Or did they begin on December 22nd at 3:01 a.m. CST, when players were required to establish an "active subscription"?
Because if it's the latter, that is most certainly, and absolutely 100 million percent illegal.
Let's hypothetically say that I'm in the military and am on active deployment. When I return home to set up a subscription and first enter SW:TOR - I'm entitled to those 30 days in their entirety for making the purchase. Period. THAT was promised.
If this invisible clock of 30 free days has been ticking since the 22nd, I feel a lot of people have grounds to pursue a consumer lawsuit.
I paid my subscription today, but I want to know that I have my free 30 days from TODAY - not the 22nd.