I joined in after NGE as well, though I kinda liked the game.
I joined about 2 and a half years ago and the server I was on was still populated. Though over the years I saw many people go and only a few new people come (which were most of the time 13 years old begging for money to everyone all the time..).
My best memorie is when I changed server actually. I went from Chilastra to Europe-Farstar, because most of the Chilly people were US and I never got the chance to run heroics etc..
I didn't pay for a character transfer so I just restarted on that server and got me a medic.
Joined a nice guild, helpful and they gave me a 60pt pet (They have some kind of pet adoption thingie) and I was on my way to become lvl 90 (lvl 45 I think my medic is now). But then a few people started to leave SWG. Guild-leader had some trouble IRL and the guild started to fall. That's when I left SWG ):.