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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The MOP Up: SWTOR gets swoopy and plaguey in March
Star Wars: The Old Republic may not have a big patch coming out this month, but the MMO does have a couple of events...
Global Chat: How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine impacted EVE Online?
While the effects of real-world events on video games certainly isn't as important as the lives, livelihoods, and freedoms of actual people, it is...
Massively Overthinking: How should MMOs handle in-game criming?
A week or so ago, I fell down a rabbit hole when writing up an ArcheAge post. Kakao was handing out joke titles for...
EA lays off hundreds of Apex Legends QA testers
Over 200 quality assurance testers for Apex Legends were abruptly fired by Electronic Arts this week, Kotaku reports. The pink slips were handed out...
The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO you tried super late in its lifetime?
Earlier this month, an MOP reader tweeted about trying Dark Age of Camelot for the first time in 2023 and falling in love, which...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Jukebox Heroes: Six great EverQuest II expansion tunes
When's the last time you stepped back and realized just how big and expansive some of your MMORPGs have become over the decades of...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?
So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer.
If your answer was...
The Daily Grind: Do you like zerg vs. zerg PvP in MMOs?
Early on in 2023, Sandbox Interactive sent Albion Online players a detailed survey asking about their game preferences, and included within was a question...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming remembers Sanju in SWTOR
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
The Stream Team: Heading into the new hunting grounds of Wild Hearts
MOP's Chris hasn't really met a giant monster hunting game he didn't like, and just last week saw a new one arrive in the...
One Shots: Flash, flash, hundred-yard dash
Rumor is, if you can run fast enough, you can accomplish just about anything. Go back in time? Sure. Quick dry jeans? Definitely. Continually...
The Stream Team: The Imp side of SWTOR’s Corellia
After finally making it through the Republic side of the Corellia story in SWTOR, Massively OP's Larry is giddy to be back on the...
Crossplatform multiplayer monster-hunting game Wild Hearts is live today
Electronic Arts officially leaps into the beast-hunting genre today with the release of KOEI TECMO's and Omega Force's Wild Hearts, live now on Steam,...
Vague Patch Notes: The three kinds of sunset in the MMO space
Not all sunsets are the same, no matter how much you may like a given game. This is one of the things that tends...
Tamriel Infinium: How Elder Scrolls Online’s quests go above and beyond the MMO norm
There are some MMOs you play because of and some you play in spite of, if you catch my drift. These titles have great...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
The Daily Grind: How should player thievery work in a modern MMO?
We just ran a Daily Grind a few days ago in which I used the word "snooping" to refer to checking out characters' attire,...
Star Wars: The Old Republic readies 64-bit client, inflation correction, and Galactic Season 4
Are you ready for the ultimate power in the galaxy? No? How about a new Star Wars: The Old Republic patch then? BioWare's cranking...
