What I saw at that time was a game which clearly had a lot of interesting core ideas, but getting to them was obtuse, ugly and not that fun. Important disclosure here that I never really played SWG, unless you count a trial period during the final six months of the games lifespan. You can get hold of it pretty easily, and as long as you have the disks, it appears to be fairly above board, but note that some big features still aren’t in the game as of yet, most notably the Jump to Lightspeed content. I have tried the it a couple of years ago, and it’s pretty clear that the emulator is still being very actively developed for. I recently downloaded Star Wars Galaxies Emu, the most complete Star Wars Galaxies emulator so far, and pottered about in it for a couple of hours.