Nobody in the Galaxy can swim

/sit while standing on a chair, next?

That's a pretty big assumption to make.

Just because Fiat make cars, doesn't mean that all cars are made by Fiat.

My point is that IF Bioware decided to implement an entire leveling zone just like Vashjir, then I'd probably agree with you that it would be a bad idea. However, right now you are essentially just jumping to conclusions.

I think you've either missed the point, or are being flippant

It probably does have SOME fluff that TOR doesn't need or wouldn't fit. But the point still stands that it still has a lot more applicable fluff for WoW, than what TOR has.

Watch the latest Clone Wars series. LA essentially discredited the whole notion that blasters and sabers wouldn't work properly under water in the Star Wars universe. Here's a trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tGTjlGKpv0

Similarly, it was also detailed in a comic strip too.

This is why it's pointless trying to cite real world physics for a fictional universe. LA has the final say. And they say that they work fine.

I agree, at first I thought my speeder was floating above the water. Then I realized that it was because the water was short. I feel like they tried putting lakes in but for some reason ran into an issue making them deep because you find large bodies of water, but nothing deep.

Maybe this is why Naboo isn't in the game.

He's just moving to the logical conclusion. Why would EA/BioWare spend time and money developing a system that is not currently in the game at all (and developing underwater environments, along with the swimming animations, underwater combat animations, 3d environment sprites, and water particle effects is a MAJOR undertaking) and just add it in as non-essential part of the game?

That would seem like a major waste of resources for trivial content.

Not an assumption. They stated quite clearly if they coded in swimming they'd go all the way including content based around swimming because there is no point in coding something as complicated as swimming and then doing nothing with it except making oceans with nothing in it.

I didn't actually mention Blizzard or WoW, and, for the record, I wasn't even talking about Blizzard or WoW, but that makes two MMO developers that had entire underwater zones that included leveling content.

Things that make you go "Hmmmm".

FYI, it was an extrapolation based on what I've read from devs about their intentions if they ever got around to including swimming in the game.

That comes back to what I said earlier about how there is actually a lot of elements in an MMO which are not actually needed for an MMO to be classified as one.

When you think about it, you don't HAVE to take part in Crafting. And yet, it's in the game.
You don't have to explore every inch of every landmass in the game, and yet, not every inch of the land mass in the game is actually needed.

There are many things in an MMO which aren't absolutely essential, and yet are often included to give players something EXTRA to take part in.

But you are jumping to the conclusion that content = mandatory leveling content.
Bioware have never been so specific.

What about content that exists in the game purely as optional content?
Like World Bosses or Heroic Mobs?

Are players FORCED to get involved in those? Nope.

An extrapolation which is based on an assumption.