Well...if I said I was surprised, I'd be lying.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/24/exclusive-smedley-on-the-sunsetting-of-star-wars-galaxies/ (http://massively.joystiq.com/2011/06/24/exclusive-smedley-on-the-sunsetting-of-star-wars-galaxies/)
There's still the emulator. Maybe that will kickstart even higher now.
Yup doesn't come as a surprise...
So I guess SW:TOR release date is XMas instead of Thanksgiving :)
I have real odd feelings about this.
I go through a game a month, PC, XBOX, Flash, Boardgame, but it feels bad to me deep down to have a Persistant World not persist.
I haven't played Qotlar Limph in many years now, but I assume he's somewhere still trying to sell a Falcon to some Water Farmer somewhere in the Galaxy.
To know I can't go back, is very very sad.