Like many people, I was super excited for SWTOR. I was invited to the closed beta and played for several months before release.

The common misconception about modern MMORPGs is that they all "copy" wow. SWTOR may have been a barebones copy of wow at best. Many of the gameplay elements bioware used had been abandoned by blizzard in vanilla.

People who don't play wow assume that everything is a copy, yet they don't realize that blizzard's greatest strength is their ability to keep reinventing their product. Every time I've played a new expansion in wow, I'm immediately forced to learn new mechanics. To me, this gives the game much more replay value, and it's a skill that no other developer has mastered the way blizzard has.