I've only read through six pages so forgive me if I'm repeating myself.
I was excited whilst waiting for this game to come out. Why? It's sci-fi and I'm a sci-fi nut. I'm also waiting for WH40K online as I've been playing tabletop/WFRP since the early 1980s. Was looking forward to Stargate online too, but it's been cancelled.
In order of doing things, I like to: Solo, craft, raid, group. I can do most of these now, and have recently started raiding. It's why I like playing 4X games.
For those of my age who have been around and had multiple MMOs under our caps and have had rather "interesting" laucnh experiences (DAOC, has a class that, with its debuffs, could reduce you to one hit point when it launched. AOL where you couldn't zone into the quest areas. Etc. etc.).
Now, for the 64 umpty-bajalion dollar question - why did I quit wow? I thought cataclysm was "ok", would have preferred it if they had left the world as was, and the instance levels as was. But with introduction of pandas as a playable race with a more oriental theme (probably to appease the far east IMO), and the talent system that is now pretty much exatly like Diablo 3 looks to be. There's nothing else there. I feel as if they are running out of ideas fast. Even though I signed up for an annual pass for a free copy of D3, I cancelled all four of my accounts as having to pay £92ish for something I'm not going to pay for a free £30 game is just daft, even for me - the CE is only £69, so even that's a saving heh.
In closing, I am throughly enjoying my time paying SWTOR, yes there are bugs, and the random crashes get on my nerves. But I am still having fun.
Thanks for reading.