http://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/2sl7i2/less_than_5_hours_after_ea_drops_for_h1z1_the/
"To make things clear, EA in this case stands for "Early Access" not "Electronic Arts"
EDIT: I have edited the post and have copied and pasted a post on /r/games by /u/ohh_yeah who formatted it much better than I did. Link to post
Although H1Z1 released only a few hours ago, players already have a bad taste in their mouth after being blatantly deceived by the dev team. When the F2P model was originally announced, Smedley made this post about their plans on the H1Z1 subreddit. Players were assured there, as well as in interviews and at gaming expos that the cash shop would be strictly cosmetic.
One of the main features of the cash shop would be air drops, where a player can pay some amount of cash to have a plane fly overhead randomly on the map, and drop a crate full of cosmetic items. In theory you could go fight for the crate yourself, but for the most part you'd be buying front row tickets to a cornucopia-style bloodbath. Smedley and other devs made it clear that air drops wouldn't contain actual survival gear, since that would detract from the experience. Instead, players could expect gun skins/hats/flags or other cosmetic items.
However, hours before the launch of the game, it was revealed by one of the devs, that:
"We have made the decision to allow paid for airdrops into the game with things like guns and other things being randomly selected as part of the airdrop."
Within an hour of launch, streamer "awildwatermelonappears" called in multiple airdrops to see how they worked. What he found is that airdrops fall a maximum of a ~20 second run away from you, and contain primarily military and survival gear. None of the airdrops he opened actually contained any cosmetic items. He received landmines, pistol ammo, an AR-15, a military backpack, first-aid kits, and other survival gear.
Smedley just made a post defending the system in the face of public outrage, and explained that some changes will be made to the drop radius in the next few days. He also made the statement:
"If you think it's P2W, don't play it."
However, people are still upset because a group of 5 players can easily claim a crate despite the zombies it attracts, and it's unlikely for other players to make it to the drop zone, or bother contesting it. There's also concern that no effort was put into making cosmetics, since none of the publicly-opened crates contained anything outlined in the original "COSMETICS ONLY" statement by SOE. They contained nothing but survival gear that gives players an advantage in the game."