Broken Promises or Unrealistic Expectations?

I will admit that the superhero games have better character customization, but that was the only decent part about those games. But SWG / Rift werent any different that Swtor unless you count the fact that in Swtor you can't be a lizard or a elf. I think people just expected too much from SWTOR on release. WoW only started with realistically <6 races.

Gnomes - Humans - Dwarfs <---- ( All Humans just different sized) , Night elf, Orc , troll, moocow, undead (Oh look another human). So that comes to 4 human races with different skin packs and size sliders and 3 beast races and the pointy eared humans with a skin disorder :P

I will reserve judgment on STO, havent played it to comment.

Never really played AoC, but Rift and SWG run into players that look similar...sure...run into players that look exactly the same? SWTOR's lack of head options outside of choosing your head and hair makes it a lot more likely.

I will admit that the superhero games have better character customization, but that was the only decent part about those games. But SWG / Rift werent any different that Swtor unless you count the fact that in Swtor you can't be a lizard or a elf. I think people just expected too much from SWTOR on release. WoW only started with realistically <6 races.

Gnomes - Humans - Dwarfs <---- ( All Humans just different sized) , Night elf, Orc , troll, moocow, undead (Oh look another human). So that comes to 4 human races with different skin packs and size sliders and 3 beast races and the pointy eared humans with a skin disorder :P

I will reserve judgment on STO, havent played it to comment.

STOs character creator is the same as the superhero's you can pretty much create your own race. Sure most players are in uniforms that are similar but such is Star Trek.

SWG(The Lekku options, SWTOR should have had this!) and Rift both had more options than SWTOR does. You are sure to run into players that are similar in looks but unless people are choosing a preset (which then would be their fault) then you're not running into many twins. In SWTOR even the NPCs have the same face.

WOW is the worst of them all when it comes to them, and using the excuse that it is a old game doesn't work because both EQ2 and SWG was far ahead in that category at the time.

Not really, I blame that on people all choosing head 1 / 3 because its the most Caucasian looking. They made the faces proportionally to certain races of humans. Call me racist or what not but I'm assuming at least 50% of the player base is Caucasian and being only really 2 head option out of 5 that resemble a white man makes the odds a tad unbalanced.

I also blame hollywood, noone wants to use the big nosed heads because of Tom Cruise and other actors. But the options are there.

The hair options seem extensive as well at least to me, but just like in real life some hairstyles will be popular and others will be less common. How many people do you see with a bed head style haircut? Now how many mullets do you see?

Think about cars now for a second, lets say you drive a small 4 door minivan but you drive down the street and you see a lot of them right? Now you buy a new car lets say a Chevy Camaro chances are you will start to notice a lot of Chevy Comaros because thats how the human mind works, it searches for similarities in a constant pool of stimuli so as to create reason and patterns the brain recognizes.

This game may not have 1000s of hairtstyles or 50 races, Yet. But theyre already announced a new race and its barely been half a year, Ide say were on track for a great mmo despite you seeing mutlple versions of yourself.

I would just like to point out that Gnomes and Dwarves are not "just different sized" humans. They have entirely different body proportions compared to humans. Even the Forsaken (the "other human") have an entirely different silhouette from the human characters. The only species in WoW that was human-like in body style were the Night Elves. The only thing that really differentiated the humans and Night Elves were the skin colours (from a distance. Yes, I know. "But the barrel chest, and the ears." Whatever).

TOR doesn't even have that. Every single species stands and looks exactly like the others. The only thing differentiating them from each other are the skin colours (Again, from a distance. Yes, I know. "But the blindfolds, and the headtails." Whatever).

Trying to make the claim that TOR is somehow better than WoW in terms of what they have for Player Character species choice at the start is...rather stretching it, to be honest. Both games started off with exactly the same number of species choice. But with WoW, they looked different, especially from a distance. In TOR, you have to get up close to them to see what they actually are.

You make a good point. Any ways it's not even that big of a issue, it's just a annoyance at times when leveling. When you reach 50 (or by the time you reach it) you can be in your own modded gear and that helps a lot but just at the early first 30 or so levels when everyone is getting the same gear it can be kind of annoying to see others wearing the same set of gear.

They need more head options though, I am disappointed because even though most races are humanoid which i've never complained...all the cool and major races in Star Wars are very humanoid...people better get used to that. It would be cool to see something like a Ithiorian or Tortuga...but with how they have handled hoods and helmets they should work on that first... they should also have had facial sliders for all of that stuff. It's just becoming a standard in MMOs it seem like.