Try replicating a hunt for a Gorax on the forest moon of Endor in real life and tell me how that goes. ;)
SWG was about getting a taste of what living in the Star Wars galaxy might be like. SWTOR never even approached the immersiveness that SWG achieved.
Anyway, Tyr and I were discussing where the developers went wrong with choosing the era to set the game since they apparently had to have playable Jedi. Not the merits of MMOs.