Ignoring your niche is like ignoring Aoc Gold your brain telling you that your pants are on fire. Sure your eyes could just be playing a trick on you, but do you really want to risk it? In most cases, the niche players will remain long after the initial window shopper gamers have passed on to their new "this minute" fixation. Spurn them and companies risk losing the anchor to their ship.
A wise person once said, "Never bite off more than you can chew." Many companies need to heed this advise; The Old Republic is promising many things to many people, they need to be careful that they don't pinky swear on something that they cannot fully deliver on. Full voice acting is all well and good, but do not supplement that for an open world environment and engaging combat.
All in all I think many Aoc Gold fans are hoping for something more than they are already used to. Giving us Aoc Gold with Star Wars art smeared across it are not the droids we are looking for. Sometimes you need to do right by your core before you can spread the gospel to others. As Whoopee Goldberg said in The Color Purple, "Till you do right by me, everything you even think about gonna' fail."