Why don't you play all 8 class story lines?

That's what most people believe "branching" means when it comes to video games and storytelling.

Remember, they pulled consequences from the game because their focus groups couldn't handle the consequences of their choices--or so I'm told. They very much meant what most people consider to be branching--dialogue that evolves based on your choices.

In SWTOR, the dialogue leads to the same exact conversations no matter which option--or companion--you choose. There is no choice. There isn't even an illusion of choice (likely a result of the aforementioned pull of truly branching dialogue).

So add your quote to the list of misstatements, hype, and empty "promises."

My apologies. I totally misunderstood your post.

Still not quite sure what your point was, actually...

I'd say convincing Jaesa to go either lightside or darkside is a huge choice in the game that impacts her whole storyline.

No worries. My points:
1.) You linked to a blog, not an interview. I wanted to show the actual question and answer that was relevant. - Yeah, my bad. Didn't look carefully enough, though it was the actual interview.
2.) The blog covered one sentence, taken somewhat out of context, from the middle of a paragraph talking about the various endgame play that would be available. - The context was that it was part of the endgame. How is it out of context?
3.) The writer of said blog (not you or your post) "conveniently" pulled the one sentence from the interviews response that would support their (blog author, not you) argument / belief while "conveniently" leaving out everything else. - And what are you thinking that argument/belief is?
4.) That there are a number of items on that list that are not and never have been in this game. - I don't see anything on that list that wasn't in the game at launch...
5.) That PvP was slated to be a big part of their game (since at least 2010 apparently) despite them having been quoted as saying that they had no idea that PvP would be popular and a great many people claiming that PvP was more of an afterthought - a type of mini-game - in ToR by design. - They were expecting the typical PvP interest. In TOR, a massive amount of people that don't usually PvP in other MMOs tried it and liked it, and still do to this day. The Ilum Incident was just broken mechanics. It's being totally revamped as we speak.
6.) That the man said there would be "all the things people are expecting out of an MMO" lends credence to many complaints on these boards today and over the past several months. - *shrugs* It has all the things I expected out of an MMO. After all, TOR is right on schedule with the typical timeline of MMO feature implementation, and above the curve with content implementation.

I don't think any of those are directly against anything you have said. Granted, I have only read your two posts in this thread, so I could be wrong. I also don't know if you (or who for that matter) wrote the blog you linked to. So, I suppose I could be refuting you, just not knowingly.

where players participate in larger player vs. player battles, where they experience epic Star Wars ground combat on kind of a grand scale

The Ilum Incident was just broken mechanics

It's a master of understatement to describe the 'promise' above as.....



In this aspect they completely failed to deliver and expectations for many were clearly not met, it was so poor from a performance and design perspective.