Megacorp known to MMO gamers primarily for its ownership of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has previously been the steward of Mythic Entertainment (which in turn once controlled Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot) as well as The Sims Online, Warhammer Online, and Dawngate.
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Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight
Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.
The Stream Team: Solving SWTOR’s Chapter VI story puzzles
Last time, Massively OP's Larry and MJ infiltrated Vaylin's party and got just as far as the kitchen in the puzzles of KOTET’s Chapter...
Leaderboard: Are you giving Ultima Online’s Endless Journey F2P conversion a try?
With the launch of Ultima Online's Endless Journey free-to-play conversion this week, a whole lotta old-school MMORPG players are turning their attention back to...
Here are all of the class nerfs and buffs coming with SWTOR’s 5.9
Just like a certain farmboy looking wistfully up at twin suns and thinking of his future, Star Wars: The Old Republic fans are looking...
Former BioWare boss expounds on EA’s role in substudios and business models
Everybody loves to dump on EA for wrecking companies like BioWare and escalating microtransactions and lockboxes to ludicrous heights, but is it warranted? Kotaku...
The Stream Team: A first free look at Ultima Online
Have you ever seen a complete newbie in Ultima Online? You can today! Massively OP's MJ has never played the game, but with today's...
Ultima Online’s F2P conversion, Endless Journey, is officially live with new ‘deluxe starter pack’
At 20 years old, Ultima Online is finally doing what its EA-backed handlers at Broadsword once said it would never do: It's going free-to-play.
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Choose My Adventure: Warframe in review
It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product.
Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...
SWTOR teases its new expansion, Cartel Market updates, and more coming by year’s end
With all the April Fool's updates and misinformation that were flying around this weekend, it was a little difficult to tell what was a...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR prank that revealed so much about the hungry fanbase
With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...
Ultima Online is officially going free-to-play on Thursday, outlaws multiboxing
If you didn't already know that Ultima Online is planning to go free-to-play, you probably still wouldn't be able to tell without reading between...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 164: Shroud of the Heroes
Justin and Bree discuss April Fools' Day across the MMO world, RIFT, DDO, Trove, Guild Wars 2, WoW, Sea of Thieves, Shroud of the Avatar, SWTOR, and FFXIV, with mailbag questions on MMO tourist modes and character customization.
GDC 2018: Depictions of violence and war in video games and Destiny’s Sword
I love stories. Maybe it's the teacher in me, but I love stories not just for their raw entertainment value, but for their ability...
Dark Age of Camelot’s killer bunny will make you soil your armor
Oh crap. You weren't good this year, were you. Instead of getting the Cadbury Bunny, with all of its chocolate-sugar bomb goodness, your indescretions...
Tale of Toast is giving up on being a free-for-all PvP MMO
We've been keeping an eye on Tale of Toast since last year in the lead up to its early access launch back in February....
Star Wars: The Old Republic gives all its subscribers two companions
Do you enjoy having companions who are primarily interested in following the money? Because that's what Star Wars: The Old Republic is offering subscribers...
Ultima Online’s F2P trial is coming in early April while DAOC hotfixes classes
The Ultima Online team is hard at work "crushing bugs" and preparing for the launch of Endless Journey. The free-to-play Publish 99 is being...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
The MMO Book Club introduces the good kind of lootboxes
Not quite a year ago, we covered a brand-new MMO community called the MMO Book Club, whose goal was to bring MMO players together...
