Dear Reader,
I was a bit anoyed as I discovered, that as f2p player (or in my case as p2p player a long time ago) you only could choose 3 races - human (boring), cybertec (little less boring) and the Darth Maul race (or as i call the on the light side: the mudfaces. Honestly who thought "Darth Maul with his black n red face lookes great, let's give the light side somthing like that and the color selection that is made for senior people: brown, light brown, beige, dark brown and muddy shitty brown!").
All the cool races like the twilek and the ratataki (i'm never sure how many "ta" are enough to had the name right) or the big red true sith are limited to paying customers. And yeah even the catpeople and the chiss are kind of cool-ish, but even those are only playable per monthly money or from the market. Bullcrap!
But after you play a while you eventually get sick loot and one of the things you get for sure is a piece of headgear. so in the end it's irrelevant wich race you play, because NOBODY WILL EVER SEE YOUR FACE!
Other games like World of Warcraft have headgear too, but they at least use different body models, so you could seperate a Orc from an Forsaken. And that's good for fuck sake.
In SWTOR all you see in the endgame are the skinny guy, the normal guy, the steroid guy and the nonstopeater. MAYBE the nonstopeater is a cheeta but who knows?
The first toon I made in SWTOR took me almost an hour to complete with all the skin deseases (called scars), skin colors, hairstyles and stuff. But now he looks like eveybody else, just a little bit heavier, because I like him fat.
Shame shame shame Bioware.
yours truly
