Yes but they could easily go to a Free game that doesn't limit so much of game play. They opened the game up so players would try it out, but after what I've seen said in General chat the Free they are offering is hurting it more then you would think. True some could just buy the smallest amount of coins but most would rather not. It's like I said they are testing the waters of F2P, they lost so many subscribers when it was subscriber only this is a attempt to save the game and get more subscribers. now I'm not saying if F2P is a last resort or a This is the end, the game is dead thing. they said it themselves F2P is a chance to bring in more players to try to grab more subscribers. Its the old game of dangle the shiny thing over their heads and see who is willing to jump the highest. Plus credit sellers already were on the servers back before F2P and left when the subscribers and profits started to leave. Now that its F2P credit farmer/sellers will be back when they just pop 5 bucks and make that and more back in profit.

Seeing this is Bioware's first ever MMO game that's has gone F2P they don't know what to really limit right out the gates. They are testing the waters to see if the current system they have in place will get more players to subscribe or walk away to other less limited MMOs. They are watching the numbers of users rise/drop and scanning chat, when they notice users are leaving over little things like say F2P'ers are leaving because they can't face to face trade with their subscriber/preferred friends they will decide to open it up to F2P latter on. In the end it will come down to either loosening the limits or losing F2P users to Truer F2P Games. When they took in the idea of doing a Micro-Transaction system they didn't Honestly look to see how other Micro-Transaction MMO games did theres and just said "Hey. I got a idea! Let them play the game from start to finish for free but make playing it harder on F2P and they will flock to the subscribe option. There's no way this could possibly go wrong." --..-- I'm a subscriber, but when I'm playing with my F2P friends I hyped up for F2P SWTOR all i can do is nod my head and agree with them some of these limits are a bit overboard.