Star Wars Galaxies has been sort of a problematic game since launch. On the one hand, it benefited from what's arguably the richest sci-fi mythos in existence -- one with countless fans the world over. On the other hand, its fundamental design was predicated on the sort of laborious game mechanics that defined the MMO universe prior to "modern" MMOs like City of Heroes, EverQuest II, and World of Warcraft. Perhaps this was OK when the game first launched in 2003, but now, with the market expanding and players' attention spans getting shorter and shorter, SOE and LucasArts have evidently decided this kind of thing clearly isn't cutting it.