This industry is unfortunately rife with bad business decisions, and with a franchise as huge and as potentially profitable as Star Wars by combining it with the FPS genre you would inevitably have created a recipe for disaster. There's no publisher that would take on the Star Wars licence and allow a developer to have sufficient creative freedom to actually create a great Star Wars FPS game with it. The dev would get abused by silly demands from marketing departments, focus testing and perhaps George Lucas himself.
I'm not confident we'll ever get another excellent Starwars game like Kotor 1&2, or even a good one like the Battlefront games. Publisher/Developer/IP owner politics will ensure it remains in developement hell, and will provide sufficient antagonism to the creative process that the game even if it does get released will most likely be awful.
Is there really any evidence that George Lucas himself would be abusing game devs? honestly the only ever interview I read where the game dev directly mentioned that George Lucas objected to an idea was when that game dev wanted to make a franchise game with Wookies as the main character and if I'm not mistaken when another game dev wanted to make a Darth Maul game. For the Wookie game the reasoning was that George thought it was silly to have a main character that did not "speak" (I am to assume English and the possible fear of an entire game with subtitles then again KOTOR was not bad though the groans got kind of tiresome and silly at times...) the latter was that when they wanted to do this DM game it was way before Attack of the Clones came out and he did not want (at that time) that character being used too much, I could be mistaken about the latter.
Its my understanding that a creative person would not want their work to be made into something they never intended and that would apply to any creative person or company to videogames, tv and films...
Any industry is rife with bad or poor judgment decisions however I feel there was a big difference back then (PS2/GC/Xbox 1/PC era) with games being made multiplatform that the game would suffer as a result and be out of focus meaning that on different platforms the experiece would be warped, until the current gen (note not the next gen...yet) where for the most part game pubs/devs have been shooting for parity of the same experience sans timed DLC deals.
I personally believe that even in this current and next gen unless it makes sense there should be more console exclusive or specific titles as opposed to multiplatform titles so as to allow the game devs the focus to make the single player experience that not always needs an online mp experience.
I understand and agree with some of your points but some of them just make me believe that somehow game pubs/devs should live in fear when making a simple franchise based videogame... you mentioned Halo series earlier and I wanted to mention that at least for Halo since its a videogame franchise NOT a movie or comics books franchise, the Halo dev team does not have to worry about fans complaining about how the game is missing experiences from the films because the rules were set in the videogame as opposed to film, comic book, manga, tv franchises...
I still would urge you to please try out Republic Commando, not because I want you to agree with me but so that you can see the entire experience in that game's single player mode, obviously the online mp is run of the mill FPS action but key here is that like KOTOR and Battlefront, RC stayed locked to last gen era, including PC btw and wonder why.
Also Kotor 1 was the only true attempt at the making of the RPG, it was a huge sales success that even non-Star Wars fans could get into playing, Kotor 2 was outsourced formula to a dev team that failed to complete the game or just that there was too much going on or they were just trying to hit the holidays without caring that the game was complete or not.
Battlefront 1 and 2 were a mixed bag, you could not seriously play it as a FPS and there were issues while seriously playing as a third person game be it on either console or PC back then... they were still fun experiences but when you got down to making some slight comparisons you would find that a platform specific game like Rouge Leader 2 and 3 Rebel Strike on GameCube as far as single player space battles were extremely satisfying with the focus on mission based maps and objectives and ground based vehicle missions were almost as great while Battlefront was really more like the old Battlefield game... only Battlefield, specially 3 and eventually 4 are strictly FPS mission based games during single player and online has evolved thanks to refinements and experience by the creative dev team.
As far as the overall company looking at pleasing the Jedi only fans and making The Force Unleashed series instead of also trying to evolve the Battlefront series, that was a major blunder and bad decision making in terms of I guess making money with a product that fans found respectable.
