Seriously?

WoW did not start with LFG, server transfers, combat log or race change, AA is being added next patch.

But WoW has them now, and yet this game doesn't.

SWTOR is a great MMO, but it's obvious it lacks some very basic things, even someone like you can't deny that.

But WoW has them now, and yet this game doesn't.

SWTOR is a great MMO, but it's obvious it lacks some very basic things, even someone like you can't deny that.

It does not matter if WoW did not start with those features. TOR and BioWare should not hold themselves to 2004 standards. This is 2012 and players demand 2012 features, 2012 graphics, 2012 tech. TOR has done no innovating in regards to tech. In fact, they've gone backwards. You may say that "Oh, it will all get patched in at a later date." but the fact remains that these simple features, staples of the MMO genre, should have been implemented at launch.

-General developer community knowledge base of online code has evolved leaps and bounds.
-game engine technology has evolved leaps and bounds.
-Just with every genre developers learn from there peers and game development continues to evolve at a very rapid pace.
these are facts, not opinions.
Now knowing these facts, and knowing that this game was built with more money and time than Blizz had waaaaaaaay back in the day when they made WOW (ancient times in terms of game development). Its should be EXPECTED that the raid content isnt loaded with showstopping gamebreaking, utterly ridiculous bugs. It should be EXPECTED that the gameplay is as smooth or MORE SMOOTH than a 7 year old game in the same genre.
1+1=2, its just all facts that, no matter how much of a Bioware fan you are, you have to face as facts.

Technology has improved. You can't compare SWTOR of 2012 to WoW of 2004. I mean, you can... but you are living in the past. You have to compare SWTOR to WoW of 2012, which thankfully for SWTOR, isn't as good as the WoW of 2008, otherwise it would be DOA.

Honestly though, it makes the most sense to compare SWTOR to the games that will be coming out this year. We're all looking for that game that we'll want to keep coming back to for years to come. GWII and TSW and TERA are all out this year, and they all have things about them that are really breaking out of the WoW MMO mold. WildStar is going to take everything cool about Star Wars and make it fun. SWTOR can't really point to anything besides the storytelling, and their biggest selling point is the BioWare and SWTOR names. Project Copernicus and ArcheAge could both be refreshing blasts form the past. It shouldn't surprise anyone if the next big thing goes back to the roots. Development is circular.

And you know what the best thing is about all those games that I have mentioned? They don't have a two faction system that is forcing developers to design content for two different sides or spend twice as much effort on classes for half the payoff.

What this game could have been and what this game turned out to be are so far apart from each other it's hard not to get disappointed by it. Yes the game is fun, but it's fun in average and bland I've done this before but I like it because it's a new MMO sort of way and that's not really going to keep the subs high.

It does not matter if WoW did not start with those features. TOR and BioWare should not hold themselves to 2004 standards. This is 2012 and players demand 2012 features, 2012 graphics, 2012 tech. TOR has done no innovating in regards to tech. In fact, they've gone backwards. You may say that "Oh, it will all get patched in at a later date." but the fact remains that these simple features, staples of the MMO genre, should have been implemented at launch.

Yes but it did not start with them, So again this is a pointless comparison.
WoW only added some of those features 2 years ago.