SWG was a game that had a lot of potential gameplay wise, and they instead rushed it and therefore it suffered a lot.
That being said, I played it from just after launch to Post-NGE purely because of the amazing people I met through it and the fun of exploring the game with them and basically inventing our own game thanks to its super sandboxy nature and fairly deep and complex mechanics. I would play an updated version in a heartbeat and still go back to the SWGEmu now and then.