If this game was not Star Wars would you still play?

Sounds like more whiney entitled BS to me. I could read those same over the top comments on the gen board...

You can find plenty of blind Bioware defense post here too that get to the point faster than that article.

Yes!
If this game was ME or Dragon age.

The stories
The companions
the exploration

No.

1. I was only interested in this MMO because of the SW back story / canon.
2. The market is already saturated with MMO titles. Some are free to play. I doubt I would have picked this title had the Star Wars™ association not been there. I would have instead opted for another F2P title.
3. To be honest if you remove the Star Wars™ from the game you are not really left with even really basic MMO features. Sure they have voice over but, let's be honest. A whole slew of relatively standard MMO features are not even implemented or should have been at launch (especially for $300 million budget). I don't want to get into a long list but (Guild really only gives you chat with others and that is it, no shared cargo bay, friends list isn't server wide it is per character, UI is very limited, etc).

It's too late for that. And I had way too much invested to simply reroll.

Flippant rerolls are fine for solo players. I invested a great deal of time and effort in forming a guild and leveling to 50. Now I just feel burned and disillusioned. Giving up what few friends I did manage to make who are left to go roll on a server full of strangers is not what I want at this point.

I play on a roleplay server as well, and all the estimated population stat's I've looked at show all the roleplay servers pretty close to the same level of players. Which is pretty much a meager population across the board. The only truly "heavy" servers are pve or pvp, they don't offer the experience I want.

A server merge is needed beyond badly, and It's not coming. For every person that is willing to reroll I imagine many just say to heck with this and walk away.

I made you angry, so what category are you?

The only reason I am here is my friends are star wars fans and there are no new MMOs out there.

Features I Love:

-Appearance Tab. I like to change the way my character looks on the fly. Having to spend million to take out mods and put them in a new outfit just to change my look it not fun.

-Fun Loot. I am sick of the static loot system WoW uses and TOR only expanded on.

-Fun gaming. I dislike games that are 100% serious. This is usually an issue in theme park games like Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. World of Warcraft was based on a world that Blizzard created so in turn Blizzard had the freedom to go in any direction and add in lots of humor.

Yes

Take away the Star Wars, it's scifi, I am sick of elves and orcs to the point I am going to hurl if I see one anytime soon.

the depth of the stories, even with out the Star wars flare would still be cool to me.

I enjoy the War zones.

Plus the game is just fun to me, I like the star wars music, I would hope a more generic scfi mmo would have a good sound trac..

Not at all. It would have to be attached to some other IP I'm interested in, such as Dragon Age or Mass Effect as others have mentioned.

That said, the game simply isn't unique enough to survive without the Star Wars IP. For me, anyway.

No.

1. If this game had no connection to the KOTOR series I would have never specifically sought it out and then followed it.
2. Star Wars is the huge draw here for me.