City of Heroes is dying.  Send off date is 11/30/12.

Star Wars: The Old Republic is not.

I will miss both when they find their end.  But the latter has a few years, contrary to "popular" commentary:
Going Free to Play is not a give-up state.  Game life is experienced in 3 to 5 years, if you're lucky, SWTOR is barely a year old.  It's an experiment.  An experiment based on the fact they made back their initial investment before they went live.  Out of BETA.  Gnaw on that and spit it out before you counter.  DDO still  exists.  Iron Realms still exists.  LOTOR still exists.  Warhammer still exists.  Aion still exists.  F2P is not a death kneel to the proverbial axe, it is an opportunity to use marketing to solidify your customer's interest in your product.

Sure some people can argue pretty flashy things as being unnecessary, and make SWTOR sound negative, but most of what's on their market is not pretty flashy things (unlike Aion), so that argument dissolves like a cube of sugar on a horse's tongue.

I'm waiting.  I'm watching.  They'll fuck something up before it's all said and done with, but I'm far from the headache I had with Star Wars:  Galaxies (Sorry, only one galaxy, FYI).  I still have fun with the game, a year later.  And the proverbial "End Game Content" is about a non-starter for me.  Unless I get lucky and have more than my roommate in my party, don't advertise it to me.  Seriously, just walk away.  Preferably far away.  I'll stare at you, and make you horribly uncomfortable until you do.

I have it on good authority from drunken predators that I remind them of serial killers, when I'm in that state of mind.

I'm almost 40.  I don't care if people like or don't like me anymore.  (Not that was an issue before, particularly.)  I've grown into someone who WILL be left alone, and giggle later at how fast they ran away.