This game is TWO MONTHS old.

Vanguard was fun at first but then it just became unplayable for me! SWTOR is in less danger than any MMO on the market besides WOW, IMO. I don't believe half the player base is going to leave for any upcoming game (and I'll probably be proven right, judging by all the dead MMOs that were supposed to be godly). You know what, I love Star Wars and probably wouldn't be defending this game as much if it wasn't but you guys will see that the game will get better in the upcoming months (not that it's bad right now, I think its amazing) and the subs will keep going up up and up.

It is exactly like Wow and a myriad of other games.

Like? Companions? Which are useless after L50? What else?

You did not provide links, unless I missed something? Yes they're adding content. Where does it say their player base is growing?

Which re-hashed content? Prior to WoW, EQ was the biggest selling MMO unto 2005 (You can wiki that for factual data) And WoW did not rheas EQ content, so please explain that remarkable analysis.

If cinema tics is all it takes to make a game the best you ever played, well I can't argue with that. From someone who has spent 9 years raiding, I think it's a total flop.

I would suggest you get back into the box then.

A combat log is not some absolutely necessary hugely required omg I can't play without it feature that every game needs. I'm getting along just fine without one. L2P?

"what the heck just happened and why did I just die?"

Who cares? You get to call a freekin medical driod and pop back up as if by magic and try again! And if you're wipping your raids, then yes, L2P. What, you need a combat log so you can whine about numbers or some random glitch that popped up here or there? Who cares? Super Mario Brothers didn't have combat logs (haha). You died cuz you jumped wrong and blew it and it was noticeable. Same thing here. Every single time I've blown it on a pull while solo-ing or in another situation resulting in my toon pushing up daisies, I've been able to pop back up, retry it in a different manner and go "oh, duh, forgot to use a little CC last time haha...must be getting lazy" or some such thing.

Know what happens with combat logs...almost INSTANTLY? This: a giant increase in "ZOMG NERF [INSERT CLASS]...HE BBQ'D MY FACE OFF IN TEH PVPs...LOOKIT TEH NUMBERZ!!!!!" As far as I'm concerned, that is the A#1 reason people want them, so they can start the nerfwars with "backup."

Still no proof of that going up and up figure

When I first started on WOW. I couldn't play on my server for several days because of Queue, lag and crashes...

SWTOR was silk on day 1.

Going to leave this here.

You will see. 1.7 out of 2.0 million is an absolutely amazing retention rate. I read somewhere that the subs got about 2 million for the first time recently, though I forget where. This game isn't going anywhere for a Loooooooooooooooong time. The subs will increase.

too bad you didnt try Cata leveling, because, while not being at the same level as SWTOR class stories, the zone stories are just as amazing as SWTOR planet stories, if you actually spent the time to read the text and listen to few convos between NPCs, especially up to 35-40 level, after that, you get to the neutral cities and the story somewhat takes the back seat. But there were only a few moments in SWTOR as good as Horde fleet invading the Twilight Highlands.

SWTOR has been in the making for 5 years. WoW revolutionised the MMO genre and brought it mainstream, you could argue that it launched with problem and ill agree yes it did. However, blizzard realised very quickly that the same everquest theme wasn't going to cut it, and that if they didn't make things happen quickly it was dead. So no, wow didnt launch with battlegrounds, it invented them as we now know them, most of the features we see where developed by blizzard, or taken from other games and made better. Hell i don't even like wow.
Also, you don't see any "I HATE SWTOR" chat in game because hardly anyone is in game, fleet has 180 people in, and each planet ranges from 10 - 60. Out of the 2 million pre sales, this is not a huge number (this is prime time, luka sena) obviously this amount is spread over all servers and not everyone is on at the same time. But out of 2 million people, it still seems we're missing an awful lot.
As far raids, upper black rock spire and onyxia if im not mistaken, not to mention all the level 60 instances, which were new, not rip off hardmodes where the only added thign is an enrage timer.

I like swtor, i do, however biowares ignoring its community on such a huge scale it isn't even funny. There are so many issues that have existed from beta (I was a closed beta tester, and played 4 builds) and plenty of features removed (alot of custom armour, there was certainly more then than there is now). Point is, being new gives you a pardon for bugs, it does not give you a pardon for lack of end game content, and considering i have nothing to do, nothing to explore, and nothing to gain outside of raid hours, this is not forgiveable. For a game 5 years in the making, I would have expected:
3 same faction warzones (huttball, arena, CTF/TDM type)
2 or 3 cross faction (voidstar, alderaan, a battle for corelia)
EVERY fp in HM, + 5 new ones.
3 operations, world bosses worth killing, that actually take a bit of prep not just turning up and *shrugging* through them laughing when someone pulls aggro because is makes no odds.
A full pvp system, with ranks, and more than 3 sets of gear (1 of which is worse than what you hit 50 in, or atleast as was the case with both my 50s)

So yes, the game is 2 months old, and we're nowhere near what it should have come with, like it or not, this game has to compete against WoW and rift. Tera and GW2 are coming out this year aswell, project titan we can assume will arrive next year, if the game isnt in a suitable state for tera/GW2 you can kiss it good bye and welcome free2play. It needs to be completely epic for Titans release because lets face it, when bllizzard decide they want the market to themselves, they take it. Which is why they have shrugged off every attempt at competition between wow and anything else. It is also the reason why after countless years you compare this game, to wow, and not a newer modern MMO, because all the new ones have made the same mistakes as this one has, and not as badly. If this wasn't star wars, we'd be looking at another all point bulletin failure by now.

I did Cata leveling and I disagree. Sure it was kinda neat, but I didn't get near the feeling of epicness (sorry) that I did as the first time I picked up a lightsaber or fighting sith lords.