there is plenty of free to play / buy to play games that dont have massive required cash grabs... they have cash grabs for things you see and you're like hell yeah i want that, aion, tera, GW2, Neverwinter (inc)... SWTOR is a terrible example to use because they jumped onto the "freemium" model and dont get them confused.. freemium is trash "give me money for this content, give me money for that content, give me money for this quest pack and that quest pack" or pay a sub and you can have 70% of it anyway...