Why wasn't this mentioned EA?

@chinnyreckon very well said. When all DLC was announced to be free I was excited for it and actually supported the idea of micro-transactions as a trade off. But at the time I was under the impression that as you said it would be fair. In it's current state it needs to be adjusted drastically. Going off information from Reddit roughly $2,000 or 4,000 hours to unlock everything is extremely unfair and more money they would make from a season pass for $60. Those stats are no mistake either and were clearly put there to see how much they could get away with. A fair price range would probably be say $120- $300 to unlock everything quickly and maybe a few hundred hours to unlock everything without paying in my opinion.

The system to me feels cheap because it is tied too much to progression almost everything you unlock is only through crates. They should have implemented a system more closely reassembly that of Battlefield 4 with that crate system. Mostly had cosmetics and some special weapons parts that didn't really give players a clear advantage over others but those weapon parts were cool and interesting to have and everyone wanted them. All the other weapons and parts had to be unlocked through game play alone. They could have also implemented just having simply cosmetics that people would go crazy for like clone trooper skins and such. Overwatch made over a Billion dollars from crates that only had cosmetics in it. But with this they simply don't have enough content in the game to do this which they do need more of like weapons, parts and skins for example.