Eh Star Wars Galaxies was still developed in the “sandbox” mold and released to tepid reception. There have been successful sandbox MMOs - EVE Online and Second

Eh Star Wars Galaxies was still developed in the “sandbox” mold and released to tepid reception. There have been successful sandbox MMOs - EVE Online and Second Life - but the audience for that experience is a lot smaller than for games like WoW (or the MMO-lites that are de jure now like Destiny, The Division, Anthem).