When they first dropped subs in STO I sorta freaked out, posted about it, and then... noticed that I got a major upgrade to all my toons at the cost of...some zen I had laying around, and, I noticed that not even 1 single person complained here, or, in any chat channel in STO.... and the future just kept getting brighter.
When they first dropped subs in CO.... *BOOM*
Making the change without giving people the ability to keep their freeforms is asking for trouble. Lots of people cannot afford to just drop $200.00 (or $300 when its not on sale) at a week's notice.
And like I said, too... Who... never... drops their sub... *ever* if even for just a month? Who??
On the surface, you can tell me that STO and CO just did the same thing. But they clearly did not just do the same thing. They didn't threaten to make anyone's toons, basically, unplayable, in STO.