If you have not tried SW: TOR yet, don't waste your time, and Buy it!
Playing The Old Republic is almost like reading an interactive novel with a very dynamic, exciting, and sometimes flashy plot. Its popularity is based on not only the Star Wars franchise legendary status but also on, unique for MMO's, story-driven gameplay with a lot of well-written characters. Star Wars: TOR, developed by BioWare, the studio responsible for titles like Baldur's Gate or Mass Effect, was released at the 20th of December 2011 and received several content expansions since then.
There are many MMORPGs currently available, but pretty much none of them are based on a franchise even remotely as popular as the one that SW: TOR is based on - The Star Wars (the only exception being, of course, Star Wars Galaxies set in the same Universum even the mighty World of Warcraft isn't even close to SW when it comes to popularity and impact on pop culture).
