Just to jump on ship with you as devil's advocate, I've been reading this thread, and I gotta say most of the responses confuse me. I played SWG, actually I only played pre-NGE SWG, so I have no idea what these "ruining" changes are everyone goes on about - faster combat and everyone can be a Jedi is all I know, so it sounds like slow people that put in the effort to become a Jedi are the ones that got shafted - but the game that I played was pretty boring.
Lots of empty planets, hardly any quests, and a humongous time-sink to get any palpable progression.
All I remember is flat worlds with hardly anything in them except people standing around the one city on each planet by themselves grinding their crafting skills. For months. I don't remember any of the great fun everyone is talking about, nor could I, if given the choice, ever pick Galaxies over TOR.
Are all of you SWG fans just rabid crafters?