What a garbage engine is this...
WoW handles textures that are so much better-looking, like here:
http://eu.media.blizzard.com/wow/media/screenshots/classes/druid-worgen03-large.jpg
Sure, the polygon count is lower, that's out of the question, but textures in Blizzard adverts are looking exactly as what you can see when playing!
WoW engine - development started in 1999 (afaik, please correct if i'm wrong).
Hero engine - somewhere around 2004-2005, i think?
Compare this:
http://eu.media.blizzard.com/wow/media/screenshots/classes/paladin-tauren02-large.jpg
to that:
http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/7371/swtor2012011110050596.jpg
Not to mention fps i'm getting when messing around in Orgrimmar (1 phase for all!) and Imperial Fleet.
I really do enjoy the game. But this joke is one of many things that keeps me from playing it for 3+ months right now. I'll finish class questlines and i'll quit.