So I have said many times how much I enjoyed the MMO Star Wars Galaxies before Sony released the NGE patch that tried to turn it into Everquest in space. I came across this article the other day and I was kind of blown away at how many private servers there are for this game. In the past there have been servers created for games like Ultima Online and other games that were quite good.
Since Sony has shut down official servers they really haven't had anything to say about these servers and they have added content and even allow you to choose which era of the game you want to play in ie pre or post NGE patch. If you have the instal media or "acquire" it from other places you can load it up and play it just like you could when it was brand new with even more content.
Think I may load this up and give it a whirl. i really loved the game when it came out and enjoyed it immensely. 

If i do I will give everyone a heads up and let ya know if its as good as it sounds.

https://mmofolklorist.com/2022/07/25/the-complete-list-of-star-wars-galaxies-rogue-servers-2022/

Looks interesting.  It was the precursor to EA's Battlefront I believe.  I will check it out for sure.

Yep this was in 2003 and SWBF hit in 2015. This is the game where Sony lost the rights to make SW games because of one patch. People loved this game as a MMO and there were always tons of players. I recall Empire vs Rebel Alliance PvP battles unlike any I had seen in previous MMOs. Entire cities would light off. It was as close as I have felt to actually being in a movie while playing a SW game.

I played a smuggler, there were no jedi at the time and smugglers couls slice (improve) armor and weapons, who was a highly trained teras kasi master. It was a blast wading in to battle using melee weapons and blaster pistols. My main weapons were a vibro axe (polearm) and a DL-44 heavy blaster (Han Solo's blaster). Both were heavily modified. I used Mandalorian Armor that was modified and enhanced with weapon bonuses because it was very resistant to energy weapons.
in this game you had three health bars, Health, Action, and Mind. Medics and stimpacks could heal health otherwise the regen on it was painfully slow.Hanging out in a cantina with dancers could help speed the regen on it as well when out of combat. Commanders / Officers helped with the action regen but it was pretty quick. If your action bar didnt have enough points to perform an action it would just cancel the action so you had to be really mindful of it in combat. Mind was the big one though, it had a medium regen and only time could heal it. it could be boosted with enhancements but it was a pretty limited pool. 
When you took damage it would effect one, two, or all of your HAM bars. It was a really awesome combat system as I dont think there was any weapon I ever saw that would one shot anyone so combat was protracted and required skill and strategy.

Unfortunately Sony decided to redo the entire UI and replace it with the EQ2 style interface which made a lot of the things  you needed to do painfully tedious and people left in droves. Funny thing is that the interface worked really well in EQ2 but absolutely blowed chunks in SWG. If you do look at this get a server that is pre CU which will use the old interface. You can use any version of the game as the server tells the game which interface to use. Also, the game is available on amazon or ebay but if you dont want to purchase it you can get it from myabandonware.com but I would scan the files before running them. i still have my old install cds so I'm good.