You make a great point Sylf - with the "free" 1 month play, you'd get to experience much of what the game has to offer I'd imagine, even just playing for ~10hrs or so that month (which is probably a high estimation on my part). Many of the CEs I purchase don't even get THAT much gameplay (or at least haven't yet). If you like the CE I suppose it'll just be one of those that sits on a shelf somewhere. And if they do eventually go F2P then you've already got a nice CE and can jump on board

I still wish they had a better statue though...