Regardless of what other games may choose to do in their integration with Origin's desktop client, here's what our situation is:

You are not required to use the Origin desktop client to download, patch or play the game client for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

This applies whether you purchase The Old Republic via Origin.com or from a retailer in boxed form. You will not be forced to install the Origin desktop client.

There are still various consumer benefits to the client itself, but it's not required for The Old Republic. 

That's cool I guess

Let's hope they don't lie to us like Ubisoft did with the From Dust DRM.

So there's no excuse for people not to play TOR ^^

I'm looking forward to it. People complain it's not innovative, but taking the best from MMO's and combining it with the best of single player RPG's is innovative in it's own way.

Just release the damn game already. I'm sick of hearing about it.

Let's hope they don't lie to us like Ubisoft did with the From Dust DRM.

This is great news if it lasts