I may be wrong as it's been a while, but I think one of the community reps gave a response to this (or was it a live letter?) they do have the tools for a free camera, but as it is right now it's part of the dev tools and making it "user friendly" would take some time/effort, so for the time being they had no plans to make it available for players.

Take it with a grain of salt, I'm not 100% sure of how accurate I was