And, to me this is where CO fails, they should have made it that you can play a villian instead of just a hero in the game as then there would be human controlled villians. It's CoX all over again.
I'm not entirely certain that it's a bad thing though. CoX with a different combat system though probably lackluster plotline would be at least worth a look. Then again..may not be worth the P2P tag. We'll see how it goes.