SWTOR is WoW with Light sabers and voice over. That's all I played it I quit even though I could keep going a month ago. But I was never a fan of WoW so its opionon friends who do play WoW rather stay in WoW with pandas then SWTOR although some are interested in the overall looks of the game vs WoW's cartoon style.
I feel incredibly negatively about that thing that OP mentioned, but I imagine Skyrim posting will increase over the holidays as billions of people go on leave.