Not going to lie, I read that quote, at first I was like this sounds cool, then it compared it to Single player missions which me facepalm. Then I watched the trailer and I'm not going to lie, it looks really shitty. It's practically all instanced based, like everything. :l I'll pass on this game definitely.
honestly in the past few months i have gone into anti hype mode, i think the game will be great, as a single player game. it feels like they are focusing on single player content way way way to much and that the multiplayer part of the game is going to suck. but then again we wont know anything till release.
maybe i am playing MMO's for the wrong reasons maybe you aren't supposed to group up with people, since thats the way a lot are being developed lately.
I have this really funny feeling that ToR may bomb and bomb hard simply because it is impossible to live up the amount of hype that Bioware and the community has built around the game.