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Star Wars: The Old Republic explains the Bolster changes in Patch 5.1
Players who logged in to Star Wars: The Old Republic after patch 5.1 and jumped right into PvP probably noticed right away that their...
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Skytroopers assault the Gravestone
Having ended on a cliffhanger last time, Massively OP's Larry and MJ will be jumping straight into the SWTOR action today. They must now...
Star Wars: Rebels teases the recanonization of The Old Republic lore
Star Wars: The Old Republic is not canon. It was one of the many things caught in the Star Wars Expanded Universe purge, which...
SWTOR launches 5.1 Defend the Throne with new trailer
Landing in Star Wars: The Old Republic today is the 5.1 update, Defend the Throne, the headlining feature of which is a set of...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Creative Director on Uprisings and Update 5.1
We are a couple days early with the Hyperspace Beacon this week for a reason you're going to love: We had an exclusive conversation...
LOTRO starts testing player housing improvements
One of the most requested and most delayed requests by the Lord of the Rings Online community over the years is a revamp to...
Quantic Foundry’s findings on WoW, SWTOR, and gender
Quantic Foundry, the gaming analytics consulting firm we've been following since late 2015 thanks to its Gamer Motivation Model, has a new blog post...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR Creative director discusses a ‘new adversary’
For the last five years and more, Star War: The Old Republic told the story of Tenebrae, a Sith of humble origins who rose...
Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online renaissance
As I peruse a hundred or so community blog posts every day, it's fascinating to me to see what games the MMO blogosphere as...
SWTOR bug drives enemy boss to commit suicide
Any MMO dungeon boss knows that it is only a matter of time before he, she, or it will be slaughtered by a pack...
The Stream Team: At SWTOR’s Gravestone
Last time, Massively OP's Larry and MJ stumbled across the Gravestone, an impressive ship from SWTOR's past. While MJ 's Chiss helped Lana get...
Jukebox Heroes: Six MMOs that need official soundtrack releases
For an avid fan of video game soundtracks, and of MMO soundtracks in particular, the most frustrating aspect of collecting and listening to these...
The struggles and successes of SWTOR
There's a new op-ed piece over at Gamasutra in which the author -- an occasional MMO player -- takes a critical look at Star...
The Daily Grind: What’s the most intellectual MMORPG?
We got a wonderful "deep thoughts" email from reader James earlier this week that serves as the backdrop for this morning's Daily Grind.
"It could...
The Game Archaeologist: Hero’s Journey
Fiction writers know well of Joseph Campbell's identification and outline of the monomyth, or "hero's journey," in many stories. The 12-step process starts with...
Perfect Ten: The best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2016 (that aren’t Legion)
Sometimes you have to exclude something from a list. I could, for example, praise World of Warcraft: Legion for being a really good expansion...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR predictions for 2017
Here we are again. Star Wars: The Old Republic survived another year despite those who predicted five years ago that it would shut down...
Global Chat: The Standing Stone standoff
Following the announcement of LOTRO and DDO's new studio and the subsequent cancellation of the Asheron's Call games, you can better believe that the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 98: New year roundtable
Justin, Bree, Eliot, Larry, and MJ sit for a roundtable podcast on the best MMOs of 2016, the 2017 outlook, our annual awards, and MMO resolutions.
The best Massively OP streams of 2016
The number of games our wee little Stream Team covers in the span of a year is staggering. If you ever wanted to know...
