I think you must have quoted the completely wrong block of text, because what you are calling complete rubbish is all true. Please see the quote from Schubert regarding decreasing the rate at which F2P will earn XP.
If you are going to continue to harass me on these forums, please at least pay attention to what you are doing.
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He gave in and resubbed, so the SWTOR crack is flowing in his veins. I'll probably be there soon. He's still not advocating that this model is great, but hey...when you want to play, you want to play.
As shitty as the idealogy is for monetizing UI elements, his point is still valid. I'm pretty sure I could put everything I needed to raid even on 2 bars. If they had never relented and given everyone 2, I would've burned them to the ground. It's pretty troubling that they needed internet jockeys like us to tell them what a moronic idea it was.