Going to 40 pieces was a big blow, but I think Rob's overuse of GMA/Evade/Mobile/etc hurt the game and the meta more than 40 piece sets did. I'm not trying to rag on Rob or anything, he made a ton of great pieces, but his last few sets seemed very unoriginal and full of power creep.

Ending the League Kits.

I picked other. The worst thing, in terms of the game being alive or dead, has been the lack of support for SWMs throughout it's lifetime. Marketing, tournament, local store, etc have been consistently far below that of similarly popular products. The communication and web support have been at varying times, non-existent to mediocre at best. The other things mentioned have at least valid counter points to be made for them, which if not convincing, are at least understandable to a degree. The lack of company support has not been. In many ways, SWMs was a success in spite of WotC's own interest in making it one.

Remember, the game was made, not as a long term project, but as a one time collectible to take advantage of the license WotC already paid for when the TCG game was canned. They never intended more than one set. Even when they saw how well it sold, they went ahead and made 3 more (Universe), still, never intending it to continue past that. Lo and behold the game went on for another 10 sets, and WotC still didn't give it the time of day. You can thank the fans, the community, and the players for making almost everything happen in terms of support over the years.

As to the others mentioned, let me speak in order.
1 - Was done supposedly to "deal with increased production costs". That's a lie, as anyone with a brain can figure out how that doesn't cut any costs, but actually increases them. The good reasons, was to lessen the load on the designer. We really didn't have enough time to see if that would have worked out or not in the long run.

2 - Really people, if you aren't over A&E by now, I don't know what is wrong with you. This wasn't even a WotC decision, so being mad, 3 years later, at WotC, is silly.

3 - First off, you have no idea if Rob used or ignored ideas. I have it on good authority that he used ideas several times from fans. Secondly, 99% of all customs are complete garbage. They are overcosted, broken, and many of the new abilities, are poorly worded.

4 - Reprints are necessary, and they specifically deal with the issue raised about mouse droids. There are other reasons as well, such as appeasing newer players, helping mass battle players, RPGers, and collectors. Further, they help ease development issues (one less stat set to design, playtest, and price).

5 - Pricing is an art form, and I challenge anyone who would pick this one to make a set of minis and price them. I will then take 10 minutes to read it over and show how much worse the costing is for that set, than anything Rob and Mons came up with.

6 - Plenty of people like Boba and Cad Bane. Jeremy Bullock is typically one of the most desired autograph's for SWs fans, even if he is one of the easiest to get.

7 - Are you serious? Its a collectible game. "COLLECTIBLE". The biggest problem with the 40 piece sets is that they were too easy to collect - thus hurting sales. I've never understood these complaints about a "COLLECTIBLE" game.

8 - Meh, another lame gripe. If evade and GMA weren't here, the list would have included two other flavor of the month abilities, found on the latest Gencon winning squads. Squads aren't build by one ability, and the game isn't dominated by them. The game isn't even dominated by individual figures. Something will always be the best, and evade is actually one of the abilities helping to balance out the shooter/melee balance issues that have always been a part of the game as well (since set 2).

Hence why I choose "other" :)

I don't know if this came from Wizards or not, I try not to follow along with the he said she said, because I enjoy the site too much to care. But whoever's fault it is, for me the worst is the spoilers. It allowed for too many pre conceived notions before the sets came out. i know some of them were leaked from other sites, but I feel like A'Sharad Hett isn't really a great piece when it comes to miniatures, but based off his popularity he's (IMO) at this moment higher priced than his worth. I'm not saying I didn't look at them, but I make it priority to not learn the stats or CE's. I like the idea of somebody listening to the fans and using their feedback, thats awesome but its a double edged sword.

I have to say that overused abilities was the most annoying thing Wizards kept doing to the game. It seemed like any unique shooter wasn't good unless they had Twin and Mobile, Double and Greater Mobile, or some combination thereof.
The problem it creates is that it gives almost no room for any other kind of shooter to be used for anything other than "for fun" games.

My Nahdar Vebb had a terribly bent corner, and forget Kotor. I didn't have a NM or better VR in my case.

I chose the move to 40-piece sets, but ending the League Kits was a bummer too.

And clearly, failing to even attempt to market the game is just unbelievably dumb. So much so that I voted as though the question was "other than failing to market the game..."

That's a good list of gripes but I think the worst that they did was the overpricing of so many pieces, Super Battle Droids, Heavy Clone Troopers, Every living Sep non-unique, Alot of the older heroes have become all but obsolete, and again with the huges.

I think that many things mentioned in others are very true, such as marketing etc. but, i'm frustrated that all the factions didn't get to be finished fairly.And that they made multiple reprints of characters (uniques) when many important characters to the sw universe were not created.If not Wizards who ended the game?