The_Celestial_Warrior wrote:
WoW has racials and is not too cookie cutter if you ask me. Racials to major stats never work on MMO's as that tends to lead to a you-must-pick-this-class design, which does indeed hurt the Wookiee to some degree. However, bonuses to minor stats always seem to work well, especially professions, as often times profession is dictated more by class and not stats.
Not sure how much WoW you played, but it is absolutely cookie cutter. Depending what class you are playing there is always the perfect racial for either pvp or pve. not usually both. WoW also changes their racials frequently, which upsets the balances. there have been too many revisions to Will of the Forsaken or the basic Human racials.
It is not always about passive bonuses btw, but activated abilities which are the real tide turners.
fortunately for the people who have large pockets, you can pay to race change your character to accommodate such changes in WoW.
One of the best things about SWTOR is the departure from a lot of basic MMO standards. It is it's own game, not a bastard clone.
The story elements more than make up for the lack or race selection. Plus for all the races you cannot play, well, you probably get a companion character to make up for it...
Talz
Weequay
Jawa
Wookiee
Droids
Togruta
Cathar
Gand
and so on..