Sub cost?!

By the single month, subscription is 14.99 USD, the 12.99 USD/month rate is how it breaks down if you pay 6 months at a time. That does sound odd that it would be that much, may want to give them a call and let them sort it out, they can be contacted via Skype at no cost, but I don't recall the details.

As for f2p/preferred/sub, I do agree that it should be base game for f2p with a healthy credit cap, a few more features for preferred, and then nice bonuses for subs, but then that would encourage people to stay f2p. I play another game that give their subs bonuses, and the preferred status there is decent enough that I stay at that level, because I can really only do one sub. As for Ops passes costing so much, that is the market, someone charged that much, some one was willing to pay it, and so the price stuck at a stupid level. On the other hand, I have a guildie that made millions selling them at 350k each when he had a glut of Cartel Coins. But, those prices are not set by the game, they are set by the players, game cost is 240 CC, the rest is buyers and sellers.