So What If Star Wars: The Old Republic is a World of Warcraft Clone?

Let's get this out of our systems right now. For all of its focus on a well-written story, its player ships, and a fortune's worth of excellent voice acting, BioWare's SWTOR still feels very much like that hulking leviathan created by the boys at Blizzard, especially in its earlier expansions. Is that okay? Leif Johnson reports.