Every once in a while, an MMO game company does something that either excites — or, in many cases, enrages — their player base.

Sony Online Entertainment is no stranger to this situation. Since the initial launch of Star Wars Galaxies nearly four years ago, SOE and LucasArts have been under fire for everything from launching the game in what many players perceived as an unfinished state to the most recent flap over the Combat Upgrade, in which the developers revamped the game's combat system and skill trees.

Now, in a move revealed early to a select few, SOE plans to completely abandon its former turn-based combat system and extensive profession system, replacing them with what they're calling Fast-Action Combat and what is essentially a class system.