I agree. I played SWG for a few months and it was fun for a bit but ended up to be very boring and dull. There's nothing really to do, no events and no goals. The devs did a shit job and hardly did what they promised. Besides, there's tons of technical bugs and crap and I believe that 90% of the people who are still playing the game are just waiting for the devs to do something with it!
I haven't played FFXI, been playing Horizons lately, but I hear good things about FFXI. ^__^