Star Wars fans have been asking for more modern, rated M (think cutting people in half with lightsaber or blowing them up with ion grenades) open world “rpg” based in the SW universe since forever. And now they make one but what do they do? Make the protagonist a woman, and you can’t even change the gender. Most people who watch Star Wars are men, and the vast majority of people who actually know, research, and are real fans of Star Wars are men. And let me guess, real world politics will be center point during the playthrough. No thanks, Star Wars is dead.
It's not just Star Wars fans but I think there's a decently sized large audience that hasn't been properly catered to since the Mass Effect trilogy, which was Bioware's budget brand version of Star Wars. And something that people have also been asking for and wanted for a long time is that experience but being able to play as something else than the vanilla male or female human that they like to restrict the player to for some reason. At the very least a competent developer would let the player get a go at playing as a Twi'lek, or Zabrak, or Chiss, since armor, clothes and animations wouldn't need to be changed.
If you love RPGs like I do then Star Wars is a hotbed for neat possible character concepts. Personally I'd like to see a Star Wars CRPG with full party creation featuring at least some of these races but I know I'm in the minority.
Wouldn't that be cool? A party of six or eight? Just me? Okay. Maybe Ubisoft tried to compromise by not only forcing you to play as a human, but also as the most alien looking goblina conceived by man, but I can't say that makes me very excited for the game. Meanwhile it seems like corporations are purposefully ignoring this neglected audience that wants to create a character that they have ownership over and go on wacky pulp space adventures in a light RPG featuring well-written characters and possibly romances, because people are getting too horny of late. It doesn't need to be divisive and tribalist, just let the player make whatever character they want and let them meet attractive or at least interesting people and aliens that are well written and either likeable or asshole scoundrels that you love to hate. It's really not that hard.