SOE Not so forgoton
Looking back it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out, it was the market judged by Lucas, and SOE that led them to believe NGE was needed. WoW was around the corner, and thousands were already ready to cancel the second they got there hands on Warcraft. SOE knew this Blizzard was not afraid to let people know there game would change the world of MMOs.
Yet here we are today with a pretty decent game now made low budget from players hoping ship to wow, I know I was one of them. And let me tell you the second people herd I was going back I had a slew of people I didn't even know wanting to sell me there accounts. Anyways my point is they have been slowly fixing the game, adding in old stuff, but not claiming its brand new like the idiots who watch fox news, and spend 5 seconds reading SOE or SWG in a headline then turn to troll mode.
They brought back Beastmaster, made it so any one can do it. Fixed Droid engineers added content, lots of instances, buildings droids, gear, etc. Yet theres the trolls who see that and use there too little to late biased opinions to posion it again, because SOE did screw them, but the staff who did that are long gone and the new guys didn't sign up to go down with a sicking ship, but clean up there mess. I mean what kind of person would take the job as head developer after the old one screwed people because its what they though they wanted?
Key thing is if you never played pre-NGE try it, if you get into a good crowd, thats right its like all mmos now theres jerks who like to mess it up who aren't soe employees. You could have some real fun, what other game offers ents, a class devoted to playing lots music, dancing, and having fun. Yes there used to buff but if you ever cut loose in a player party or just in private to your own music you might just like it like I do.
They still got the classic Star Wars staples Bounty hunters, no other game offers the ability to but out a hit on some one who annoys you or camps your corpse lol. If you look hard enough you will see there still is fun to be had, and unique communities if you dig real deep past the normal MMO crowds.
In conclusion try the game for awhile and have fun with it, the game is catered towards group play and needing to work with others, if you hate that don't play. If you like it by all means dig in, and as far as the SWG trolls are concerned treat them like you old crazy relative who could rant for hours about disliking computers or basically anything that threatens there old way of thinking.
Its a game have fun, and times change, MMOs are no different find an old WoW raider and ask them what they think of endgame raids starting the day you hit 80, poke them enough and they will sound like old SWG players. Some probably are lol. :P