Editing Star Wars: The Old Republic (section)

===Blizzard Strikes Back===
Then it happened. WoW launched its Mists of Pandaria expansion, which was advertised essentially as "we're doing what you asked for for years, we fixed what was shit" and brought about the ability to go with armor that looked good by superimposing it's look on better stat items (something SWTOR had promised with their orange items but failed in a big way to deliver on) along with streamlined classes, exploration based gameplay, a legendary quest chain which was for all classes, a plethora of interesting characters, and the addition of not only the long-demanded Pandaren class to the game (which would be in both factions) but also the fan favorite from Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne, Chen Stormstout (as well as his Jade Chan-like niece who developed a fan following of her own from her antics and voice acting). 
Then to deal the finishing blow, the long awaited and much drooled over Guild Wars 2 was released. 

Within months, SWTOR had fallen from the most rapidly rising MMO ever to a free-to-play game with only a few thousand players and a playerbase who stuck around only because they were hardcore Star Wars fans. The sad tale of STWOR was over.

Later content involved going from a subscription to free to play (pay to do jack shit with convenience), adding in a few of the requested races (primarily just Cathar), expanding the "you just play everyone" idea by removing restrictions on races if you had leveled one up fully (so you could be a Sith Pureblood Jedi Knight, or a Cathar Mandalorian), expanding space combat into a full PvP experience (which was a clusterfuck mostly based on the idea of "you want cosmetic items to customize your ship? You have to play a lot to get them), and a few graphic enhancements. An expansion was released centering around the Hutts after hearing so much how some people wanted plotlines that DIDN'T revolve around jedi/sith all the time (although suddenly forcing jedi and sith into being bounty hunters and smugglers only proved to shift the complaints the other way), and finally the "Cartel Coin" system consisting of everybody's "favorite" way to play a game: buying fake money with real money, and buying everything you should be unlocking through gameplay. 

The dream was over. Although the game goes on, there's no telling for how long it will. After several years only a trickle of new content has been added, while WoW released multiple major patches and produced their biggest expansion yet. Many players were left once again wondering how they could have been so dumb to waste their time and money on lies and speculation. Disney's acquisition of the Star Wars franchise changed nothing about the game, as <s>Bioware</s> Electronic Arts is ultimately the ones in charge of it while Disney focuses on Star Wars movies and cartoons.