You've got generic humans, generic insect aliens, and generic super human psychic religious race. The last one is less generic than the other two, but definitely done in several places before. As per the content slashing. I think it's a pretty serious blow to the game. I think enough people will send them angry letters that they'll put at least the classes back in, even if the classes aren't really amazing. Also, yes, it's a lot like WoW. A lot of good features were taken from WoW, and a lot of bad features were avoided. This is the same thing WoW did when it came out, taking the basic MMO game and altering some of the frustration out of it.