Darth Hater

If they offered a paid service to go from Empire to Republic, I'd probably do it for my 50's. I like the Republic gear/classes/abilities and the Empire leveling stories. 

I just could not force myself to play JK or JC after playing all the empire classes.... tried consular first, the story is lame imho /you are getting medicine for granma /, and most important of all, armors are horrible! Same goes for JK... played sentinel and had to look realy hard for an orange smuggler medium so I can wear that... all armors, even the high level ones, look like bland bath-robes! When you look at the kotor games or comics or clone wars, there are some awesome jedi armors, but the design team for the jedi classes just did a horrible job... add to that the "big butt" bug, and the armors are fail. Empire side is just plain awesome when it comes to armors, especially the higher level agent ones look amazing.

As a 50 Sorc I have to say that both my story and my armor are rather lackluster beyond the first act. Currently I look like a the love child of a KKK Grand Wizard and The Wicked Witch of the West.

I played alli in wow, was dead set on imperial until I actually played the game and now am Republic main. I think once the game matures it will not be as drastic of number difference on the 2, but Imperials will probably always be higher because so many people want to be the bad guy.

Well, judging by the comments, I guess there is a low correlation between WoW faction preference and TOR faction preference

They are still refusing to acknowledge yes or no for future, multiplayer space combat.

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They are still refusing to acknowledge yes or no for future, multiplayer space combat.

Well, if they haven't said no, we don't know if it is no. the uncertainty kind of sucks, but I can see why they wouldn't want to get people's hopes up just to dash them later like some MMOs have in the past. 

Until they come out and say multiplayer won't be there, best thing to do is say your two cents and then move onto other things.

Empire all the way!  Freedom to do what I want.  Plenty of sex and bloodshed.  I can be nice if I want and not get punished for it!  Who would want to be a Jedi Space Monk?  No sex, little violence, no fun.  The Jedi are ascetics.

I played almost every character on both sides during beta.  The Imperial stories are soooooo much better than the Republic story lines.  The Republic story lines are downright boring by comparison.  I'm not surprised there is faction imbalance at all.

Played exclusively Horde in WoW, so far exclusively republic in SWTOR but will probably roll Imperial alts to see the stories.

played both sides last 7 years in wow. main is empire

I'm curious when it comes to the factions.  I wonder how many Republic players were former Alliance players and how many Imperial players were former Horde players.  It would be interesting to see if there is any correlation or if it is merely a figment of my imagination.

Former alliance since vanilla and now empire lvl 40(sniper) and 17(jugg).  I will eventually play all classes for the stories and if server balance stays leaning to empire i will probable switch to republic as main.

My main was alliance and I'm currently Sith. If it helps though with data, I was primarily Imperial in SWG.

Played almost exclusively Horde on WOW, playing Republic on TOR.