See for me it is just simple pride. When I play other games like Skyrim, I spin the camera around from time to time and awe in my charters greatness and look. I feel pride in the look I created for him. With MMO's like WoW it is the same, I put so many hours of my life into a game, sometimes just to get a FULL set of the same type of gear just to look, well.....EPIC. I feel the sense of pride in my Characters look. Let's face it with MMO's the way our gear looks has become a symbol of how much we played, a status symbol if you will. We all go from wearing simple robes, or armor to gear with spikes, blades, rockets, flashy bits and smoke. Its one of the reasons that drives us to level, and explore. No buddy looks at a level 2 running around with a robe on and thinks "Wow, that guy/girl must be really good." The reason people are getting so upset, felling cheated, and wanting to quit is because our status symbols, our badges of honor, our late nights drinking energy drinks. Has become pixelated, poorly rendered thanks for participating medals, sometimes looking so bad you can't tell the difference between level 10 gear and level 40 gear. I like this game a lot, I'm only level 40 and will continue to work towards 50 and the end of my quest-line. After reading this forum and logging on and looking at my character, I couldn't tell the difference between his level 10 robe and his level 40 robe because they were both rendered so poorly. I felt like I was starting at level 10 again, hoping that I will one day soon look EPIC, and when I walk around the market new players will be like " Wow, that guy must be really good, what do I have to do to look like that."
That's just my two cents on this. The game is really good, I wasn't a Star Wars fan before this, but I am certainly one now. I look forward to the future of this MMO.