Blhahahha @ the first two whiners in this thread.
95% of all expansions cost money in addition to your subscription...
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This guy. You have zero idea how much goes into creating a new companion, race, etc. You have zero evidence to support how lazy it may or may not be. You sir, are what I feel is wrong with video games. Who are you to minimize their work as lazy? I'm lucky that I get to live in Austin, and have met quite a few developers from SWTOR and even more fortunate to be in the industry as a whole. What they do, and what most designers cannot be considered lazy. In fact, please understand they only have so many hours in a day to do something, and time=money. Everything they do has a time cost attached to it, much like Car Mechanics. When you are in the land of Time=Money, you have to look at what you can sink the least time into, to provide the most impact.
If you sink a ton of time into 1 thing, you better hope it pays off. Right now, as a company, they are better off playing time costs close to the chest, and really waiting to see how things pan out before they go on crusades.