I liked the concept, but I just can't get my head around the gameplay.
I guess some people are just wired differently.
I'd say that "Free Trial" would be a much better way of phrasing that than Free to Play.
Either way I'm not really surprised by this move if I'm honest. Atlas Reactor would have worked out much better as a free to play title from the start. It was always going to be a very niche game so the lowest possible barrier for entry would have been best in the hopes of getting the widest audience possible.
I really do wonder just what is going on at Trion these days. They seem to be constantly trying to one-up their latest catastrophy with an even bigger and better one since Defiance.