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Been pondering this with wistful bemusement for some days now.
SSB was almost stillborn, SWM had a good run but faced huge criticisms, WotC lost/gave up/whatever it's license. FFG picked it up... huge initial excitement for "X-Wing" followed by NO information whatsoever, no support, irritated fans and now... chirping crickets on the FFG boards.
Don't you kind of LONG for the days of people making theoretical lists of The Next Set? Does that reposed Stormtrooper seem all that bad now? Does it really make that much difference, in retrospect, that the Jedi Weapon Master was undercosted? Though the SSB ruleset was unsat, with all the fan-work that's been done isn't a it bit of a pity there wasn't a second set - crappy rules and all?
Reminds me of the Bush t-shirt I see sometimes. I think WotC employees should all get shirts that say, "WotC: miss me yet?"

Edit: I posted this on the SSB subforum because, perversely, it's now one of the most hoppin' SW boards around! Go figure. I thought it was appropriate.

Oh yeah it's quite the hotbed of activity over here.  

Look at me I'm shouting in the dark and it is so desolate I can leave and days later you can still hear my echo. 

Some day I'll be playing with Star Wars minis again :D Sadly, also basic-SWM has been forgotten by me and my friends. Too many games, too little time. In addition to rpg's we've been a lot of Eclipse. It's a Finnish boardgame very much resembling Master of Orion, and plays really fast compared to other similar games. 

I lay in the minority that didnt think the rules were that bad in the first place. Granted theres some balance issues between armies and I wish it was little bit more viable to play a fair game as cis vs republic or rebel vs empire. That FFG game thats gone dark seems as if it'll be waaaaaay too expensive and their only brainstormed expanisions so far involve slave I and MF. Its definitely not shaping up to be as fun or as interesting a set as SSB was.

What RK said!  Essentially aside from moving the fighters, you were simply playing a game of Roll the Dice, since there was no incintive to move the non-fighter ships!  For me, I didn't even like the gaming grid and actually did away with it altogether with my ruleset which in my opinion opened up the game even more since you're no longer restricted to certain girds on a star map.  In the end however, it all conmes down to preference, so nobody is right or wrong for how they like to play which in my opinion allows everyone to win, lol!