Ahi-Dagra

Yup, I remember LEGO Universe. Much like the Old Republic, I imagine that LEGO Universe would have been more successful as a single-player game(if only because MMO games do not tend to be very successful!). LEGO Star Wars and its ilk, for example, are performing quite fine.

I'm still not sure why LEGO took the plunge into a MMOG so suddenly and aggressively, as I don't remember them showing any evidence of thoroughly researching or marketing it. Like you said, their single-player games are performing just fine, even if all of them have quite similar gameplay (owning several, it looks to me like only the 7-year-old BIONICLE Heroes has a markedly different style). LEGO Universe, along with Chima, seems to be just one of those baffling choices by the comp...

...any to put a lot of its resources in a particular direction.