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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Massively Overthinking: On slavery mechanics in MMOs
Polygon recently had an interview with Conan Exiles creative director Joel Bylos focused on the game's slavery mechanics, a "feature" I had entirely forgotten...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR Summer roadmap might get you back into PvP
Star Wars: The Old Republic producer Keith Kanneg just dropped the next roadmap earlier today, outlining the features upcoming before September and a little bit beyond....
Snag a Eudemons Online newbie pack in time for today’s Goddess update
I didn't know much about Eudemons Online before the folks at 99.com reached out to us about this giveaway, but apparently this game has...
The Stream Team: Out of the vault in SWTOR’s Chapter VII
Into the Void just became Out of the Vault! Massively OP's Larry and MJ are trapped in a SWTOR vault and need to find...
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
The Daily Grind: Is it possible for an MMORPG to offer an optional sub that isn’t pay-to-win?
Last week, in the comments under the Bless optional subscription brouhaha article, I made an offhand comment that apparently got MOP commenter Sally's gears...
Ultima Online preps a bug push, gives a voice to town cryers
Bugs, you better live it up, because your days are numbered. Ultima Online is preparing a big bug push (squash?) with June's Publish 100....
Choose My Adventure: Ultima Online, we didn’t need to do this
Yes, this is going to come in as the shortest Choose My Adventure series, but I feel it's got a good reason to be...
BioWare’s Anthem will let you be ‘the hero of your story’ even in multiplayer
What began as a general vision statement for BioWare quickly turned into a treatise on how the studio is going to handle Anthem's multiplayer...
EA quarterly financials: Anthem due March 2019, record profits, and lockbox-gambling denialism
EA's quarterly financial report and investor call turned out to be a doozy this year with quite a bit of useful news. To wit:
BioWare's...
Perfect Ten: You got your MMORPG in my tabletop RPG
Tabletop games and MMORPGs seem like they would go well together, but remarkably they often don't. That's true for several reasons, but one of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 169: Farscape and RuneScape
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Trove, Secret World Legends, RuneScape and Jagex, Amazon's New World, PWE MMO sunsets, Star Trek Online's new business model, SWTOR, and ESO, plus mailbag topics on the Guild Wars 1 graphics update and crafting MMOs. And yes, we talk Farscape too!
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about ‘twinking’ in MMORPGs?
Last month, I took a few hours to put together a care package in Ultima Online for Eliot - a bag of gear, potions,...
The MOP Up: Battlerite royale (May 6, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Update 5.9 concludes the traitor storyline in classic style
May the fourth be with you, Massively OP readers. I hope you are having a wonderful unofficial Star Wars holiday. And if you're thinking...
Choose My Adventure: In which Ultima Online makes its displeasure known
So... this is an interesting situation for me. I've had a number of games that I've played for Choose My Adventure that I haven't...
Activision-Blizzard talks battle royale and saving Destiny 2 as stock slowly recovers after Dow Jones snafu
Yesterday we teased ActiBlizz for putting out another boring quarterly financial report about its ever-growing piles of money, but even with World of Warcraft...
Star Wars: The Old Republic uncovers The Nathema Conspiracy
If you've always thought that there was a conspiracy over at BioWare, it turns out you were right. It also turns out that it's...
Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff
Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...
The Stream Team: Into the void of SWTOR’s Chapter VII
Things are certainly getting interesting for Massively OP's Larry and MJ in their SWTOR Choose my Alignment adventure. Arcann no longer wants to kill...
