It's simply not good practice to run any user mode program as an adminisatrator, regardless of how knowledgeable or secure you think your computer might be. You won't find many sysadmin's running servers with network applications with admin level privileges, so why would you want to do that on your own PC either? You didn't write this software, so you don't know what you are allowing it to do by granting it full rights to your whole system. Regardless of this debate, it's simply not good practice to run applications with admin privileges. Moreover, this application (SWTOR) doesn't even need admin privs to operate imo - you should be more concerned about why it's asking for it in the first place. Disabling UAC prompting is not a wise idea - you have even less chance of noticing when an application is granted rights to your system.

Nope - that's why Microsoft implemented the VirtualStore, so that applications installed into protected areas such as "Program Files" can still virtually update themselves without UAC elevation. However, my game is not installed on the system drive, there is absolutely no requirement for admin privs. World of Warcraft never requires it, and it's doing pretty much the same thing as SWTOR.

Why is SWTOR requesting UAC Elevation? There is absolutely no need for it to run with elevated privileges and it's breaking the functionality of other applications such as Ventrilo, which have to be run as an administrator in turn, just so they can see keypress events.