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

No.
I love SW & sci fi it is why I am here,as mmorpg TOR is bad ,i had feel it is SP game most time.

As I's tired of orc/goblin/warg bashing MMOs then I probably would.

I much prefer the Sci-Fi over plate armor and shields

No.
But it´s really stupid question and unplausible situation. Basically you are asking, whould you play SWTOR without 90% of SWTOR because Star Wars is everything in this game.
Who, in his sound mind, would launch a new MMO without any allure in the first place?
Besides you didn´t provide any possible alternatives to replace SW.
In this case, your question is equivalent of would you play SWTOR if there is no SWTOR and any possible alternative to it. The logic answer to this is NO. No game no play.

Probably not no. I played swg from launch up to the nge, and I loved that game but had to quit when that garbage came out. I stayed clear from WoW thank god, and when I heard this game was coming out years go I was really happy and knew I would play it threw thick and thin.

I am finding it harder and harder to log in, I guess im waiting for 1.2 to get me motivated again.

No

Horrible laggy engine and no sign of fixing it.

Nothing to do when you hit level 50 and also lack of sign of having this issue resolved.

Boring space combat - I wan't freedom not fly always in the same path!

I'm enjoying the game, but even with that said had it not been SW I would have never left WoW to begin with.

Truthfully, I'm not sure. My husband got a beta weekend invite....then pre-ordered (early Christmas gift), and watching him play got me interested, so much so that three days after Christmas for my final Christmas gift we went out and bought it for me. So, I guess the question would be would my husband have actually done the beta if it wasn't Star Wars....and I don't think he would have. He's had beta offers before and not done them, or done them and not been as excited about them - and definitely didn't have me watch.

Edit: just asked me husband, and he probably would have beta tested the game even if it hadn't been star wars.

Yes I would.

Because its a great game. I didn't know who Thrall was before WoW and yet I played that for 6 years.

sadly, no. this game is totally carried by the star wars franchise. bad engine, buggy content, horrible cs, horrible communication between bw and us, mythic guys yet again failed with pvp scenarios like ilum.

if we took out the SW and put in its place some generic sci-fi franchise. (tbh, while many people say the storyline is SWTOR is awesome, all it takes to beat it for someone to get a decent sci-fi novel from the library)