@Arrow

You sound exactly like the people complaining about this offer. You bitch about them not keeping available until the first, but that is like 1/20th of your post. The rest of your comment rages on how sucky the beta was.

So then, why complain about not being able to buy the lifetime subscription? Clearly the game sucks right?

Sounds like you just have an axe to grind. I will agree that Cryptic's customer service and communication with their players is bad. They seriously need to fire their PR staff and bring in new blood. And thier game still has lots of bugs in it (better now) but I think there are some core things missing that should be in release (like even a good LFG system or even stealing WAR's Open Groups).

But regardless, the wild threats are just silly. Play CoX, Play CO. Whatever. Voting with your dollar is a powerful thing. Complaining that you can't buy a lifetime subscription when you clearly don't like the game is pretty weak. I would have felt sympathy for you if you would have been raving how this is your favorite game and you were just saving up your dollars and how you love CO anyway and will subscribe, albeit disappointed. Then I might have rallied to your cause.