Nobody suggested that! Stop with the strawmen and the dishonesty, and it's not just you. It goes without saying, even though it was obvious from the original post, that this is not the issue at hand. It's perfectly possible to make the PS experience a lot better with some 'minor' tweaks without doing the slightest damage to the game and the subscriber base. Truth is, people get triggered by the slightest indcation that the ''pleb'' could be getting something else than what they already have. For the most part it's an irrational and prejudiced attitude. Seriously having a hard time reading through all the condescending talk.
I don't know what's so hard to understand. No one, and I mean no one is calling for equal content between preferred status and subscribers. Rather that the gap between F2P and PS be enlarged. This could be done without affecting the status-quo for subs and BW itself. How on Earth will you be affected by, say, PS having the credit cap increased from 350k (only 150k more than F2P) to a million? If anything, as another poster suggested, subs will be able to have a larger GTN customer base. There would still be a ridiculous amount of exclusive perks to make it worthwhile to subscribe.
For all I know, the current state of affairs with regards to preferred status (and obviously I don't mean people who've spent 5 bucks) sure as hell ain't encouraging me to re-subscribe. I'd also make a case for the rude player base, but that seems to be a minority. I expected most of this reactions, hence I made sure to write in the OP that none of that was intended in a give me stuff-for-free kind of tone. Five pages later it's implied that we (subs talking about preferred) are acting like beggars. I'd bet the farm 80% of people didn't even bother to read the start of the thread, and instead decided to get in super-emotive mode God knows why. I get it, ''you get what you pay for'' and having burnt large amounts of money in the game ain't making you any different than someone who's payed five dollars, and almost on-par with those who haven't spent a dime (people whose demands I, too, have no sympathy for. Not sure why they were brought up though, must be more dishonest tactics, inability to read or simple carelessness) - it's an overzealous corporate model that won't make their costumers' lives any easier once they stop feeding the cow, even though they may have had prospects of returning. I get it. That would beg the question of right or wrong, still, but I, for one, have no interest in contrubiting to this model - and there went a [possible] sub.
And you're absolutely right if you say it makes no difference, me being a drop in the ocean. A coin in McDuck's gold pool. But that's a different discussion.