At least they've known it for quite a while.
To me it feels like EA just threw the (clearly unfinished) game out for the christmas-sales and then when it failed massively they decided to go F2P, sack half the team and stop new content until after F2P is announced.
Still gonna be subbed until I see whether EA's greed makes the Cartel-shop P2Wville, but Bioware has gone on my sh*t-list since they're clearly beyond salvation.
And seriously. $200m, 5 years(or more?) and the Star Wars IP and they last 8 months before going F2P?