It's really dangerous to get into this conversation with a Star Wars freak currently playing TOR. Their face will scrunch up and they will go stone cold, as they quickly transform into "Yes, I'm a long time Star Wars zealot despite a decade of weird prequels and retro-activated George Lucas tampering/tweaking, so anything -- and I mean anything -- negative you say about the Star Wars franchise will be vehemently attacked and deflected" mode.
It's just not possible to elicit any objectivity in a true blood Star Wars zealot.
Hell, even speaking to a SW junkie that recently quit TOR and returned to RIFT, one of the most frequently updated titles of 'this generation' of MMO, the person still dropped into Zealot mode to defend the game they deliberately quit -- almost apologetically. Do not disturb the Force in an absolute SW zealot or you will open an enormous can of worms.
Folks that were somehow profoundly touched by the movie franchise as children and young adults, and cannot be swayed from viewing it as the pinnacle of science fiction whether it's in film, novel, comic, or video game format. And the number of zealots out there is so massive that TOR can count on a sort of 'baseline' stable subscriber level for likely years to come.
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