It should have been a blockbuster.

The ingredients were all there. Take the publisher that bought you Everquest, give it the Star Wars licence to play with, and make an MMORPG set in the timeline between A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back.

All of you Star Wars fans reading this should be playing it already.

But you're not. You're playing World of Warcraft instead, it seems.

The reason, Sony Online Entertainment and LucasArts opine, is down to the complexity of the game. That it took too long to progress. That many of you wanted to be Jedi from day one. That it lacked the 'Star Wars-y' feel it needed.