Take a look at the non-Cryptic, Perfect World games. Forsaken World for instance gives away ALL of its content for free. Every race. Every class. The only things you have to buy in the Micro shop AT ALL are purely cosmetic Items. Even the fastest mounts in the game are ENTIRELY FREE.
The diamond to zen trade is about as efficient as the dillithium trade in STO. Months of grinding against a daily cap, for even the cheapest of items. And as I said ladymythos, this company ALWAYS starts off giving the majority of their stuff out for free, but go try out Champions and STO. Champions is basically unplayable…
Nope. This is a slippery slope and cryptic has fallen down it time and time again. They always start by releasing the pack contents later but then it ends up as I said like STO where you either have to spend real money on the ships needed to stay viable in PvP or just forgo the PvP content all together.
"Sigh" So its going to end up like Star Trek online, and Champions Online then. Slowly inching into the pay to win stratagem. I dont know why I'm surprised, cryptic always does this.