This game is TWO MONTHS old.

Why?

What are rocket scientists meant to do to pass the time?

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Actually it doesn't. To some fishing is great and exciting to me it isn't. It is my opinion and views of fishing that makes it dull and boring for me and it is theirs that makes it exciting for them.

I think you're getting confused. Nobody on this side of the argument is "cherry picking".

1) the game cost a bit (or a lot) more than comparable games (depending on who you believe)

2) the "more" fairly obviously went into the VO, story, dialogues aspect. (Unsurprisingly, since that's BW's speciality, and one would expect them to play to their strengths). IOW BW thought that added content was valuable to them (because they thought it would attract new players to the genre, presumably).

3) some people don't think that's good sense on BW's part, others do. Some don't believe that the added value from that will be enough for BW to have a successful game, others do.

4) however whether that's good value for BW in the opinions of players who fancy themselves as amateur game designers, or cognoscenti of MMOs, or whatever (i.e. whether the player thinks BW spent its money well) is a different question from whether they as players thinks the game is worth a sub.

5) Again, some do think it's worth a sub, and think the VO adds value TO THEM (over other games or activities they could have spent the sub money on), others don't, and find the VO doesn't add any value FOR THEM (they'd rather play something else or do something else).

6) Regardless, the cost of a sub is about the same as any other game, so it's not as if the players are paying anything extra for the added content - there' no point in feeling insulted by the fact that BW have chosen to spend extra money on VO content (although judging from some of the hater crap, oddly, it seems like it's a personal affront to some that BW have chosen to make the game the way they have).

If one doesn't like it one is free to cancel the sub and go somewhere else. If one doesn't like it but still wants to stick with the game and encourage the devs to improve it the way one thinks it should be improved, one can stay and post constructively.

But hanging around and perpetually whining and dissing BW is a waste of the whiner's time and everyone else's.

More or less, yes.
It takes time (and money) to develop game systems, user interface, content that utilises the game system. There is only a finite amount of time that a game can be held in development. At some point beta testing has to start and at that point either the company returns to investors and asks for another huge bag of money (and likely giving up their job), or they start working to ship the game.
So the reasonable comparison is to compare games based on development time. SW:TOR has 5 years of development, which is a little longer than most, but not that much longer and much of that was not so much content or system development but the time consuming dialog writing and recording.

The amount of money is an inaccurate measurement at best. You are comparing not only different dollars (a dollar in 2001 bought a different amount of work than one in 2010), but also different needs for different generations of games. The quality of modelling in modern games is much higher than it was in the WoW generation, and that was much higher than of even older games. That means more work for the art department, and higher costs associated with the same amount of content. Bioware may spend between 3 to 10 times as much writing on a quest as do other games. That again makes the game more expensive for the same amount of money, but at the potential gain of higher replayability and higher player retention. But blizzard had to develop a game engine from scratch as there was nothing on the market that could match to what they wanted to do with WoW, so they had much higher initial cost outlay for that.

Staff size would give you a more precise comparison but that kind of information is not generally accessible. Historically games cut down their staff to one for maintaining the game and a much reduced one for bugfixes and new content development.
Later games maintain a bigger development staff, accounting for the more rapid rate of bugfixes and new game systems being added. And accounting for the fact that they need to play catch up with the established game that have had more time to add new features.

Its only beta.

Its only pre-release.

Its only one month.

Its only two months.

Its only a year.

Its only a......

Its only a lame excuse made by blind fanbois.

This!

If you want a MMO that lacks features standard to the industry since practically the birth of the genre, then go play Hello Kitty adventure Island.

World of Warcraft was not the "birth" of the genre... /picardfacepalm

Combat logs/UI customization were around since long before WoW, so /picardfacepalm yourself.