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: SWG rogue server Empire in Flames celebrates five years
Star Wars Galaxies: Empire in Flames rogue server celebrated its fifth anniversary this past week. "Since the doors opened on May 4th 2017, EiF...
Massively Overthinking: If you could change one thing about an MMO…
Back in April, MOP's Colin posed us an interesting challenge on the MOP Podcast: change one thing about an MMO you don't like that...
MMO Business Roundup: Nexon, Roblox, and EA’s latest financials
Welcome back to a fresh roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business and industry news, today all of the financial report variety.
Roblox
Roblox's revenue reports have...
Global Chat: How you can help your MMO’s community
Are you a net positive or a negative for the MMORPGs you inhabit? If you'd like to be the former, MMO Folklorist has 10...
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Jawa murder party
What happens when SWTOR doesn't give (much) new story content in a long, long time? You find other things to do! And Massively OP's...
Perfect Ten: The many-colored dragon rainbow of the MMO sphere
Dragons are ubiquitous. When I wrote a Perfect Ten describing every single MMO bestiary, I noted that no matter what game you're playing, no...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite healing style in an MMO?
If I could only pick one healing style forever in an MMO, it's anything that hooks me up with a Grid-like healing tool. That...
EA announces plans for a Lord of the Rings ‘collectible role-playing game’ for mobile devices
Electronic Arts and Middle-earth Enterprises have clapped hands together to enable the creation of a new mobile game based on the Lord of the...
World of Warcraft ‘experiments’ with raid rewards in preparation for Dragonflight
It's always a super-comforting happenstance when a game studio decides that it wants to wildly monkey with the current MMO to prepare for an...
Star Wars The Old Republic talks up its presence at this year’s in-person Star Wars Celebration
There's going to be another in-person event happening - specifically Star Wars Celebration at the Anaheim Convention Center on May 26th through the 29th...
Massively Overthinking: The minimum requirements for MMO player housing
We've got housing on the brain lately, thanks to Ship of Heroes' housing beta, Final Fantasy XIV's botched housing lottos, Warframe's new housing, and...
PSA: Get your free original SWTOR mech today on Star Wars Day
It's been the longest of all running jokes that Star Wars: The Old Republic loves to trot out the same astromech pet for a...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning unveils a new PvPvE scenario and live event arriving in May
The dead should stay dead, which is something that players of the Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning are going to have to...
Global Chat: Who gets to decide what is ‘fun’ in MMORPGs?
In a thought-provoking essay, MMO blog Parallel Context wrestled with the question, "Who gets to decide what is fun in multiplayer games?" This is...
Ultima Online rolls out Treasures of Fey Wrath event to the live shards
Ultima Online has kicked off another artifact-laden server event in the form of Treasures of Fey Wrath. This particular version of the "treasures of"...
Massively on the Go: The top 10 Pokemon Go Mega Pokemon worth investing in
As dataminers discovered back in April, Pokemon GO's Mega Evolution system has gotten its third reworking, plus the release of regional Kangaskhan's Mega, released globally...
Disney announces life sim Dreamlight Valley with multiplayer potential
If your wildest gaming dreams involved the, ahem, goofy combination of Disney, Pixar, Stardew Valley, and The Sims, then you're weirdly in luck.
Gameloft and...
Working As Intended: LFD, community accountability, and the balance of power in classic MMOs
At the heart of the WoW Classic argument over the dungeon finder tool is the professed belief that LFD ruined socializing in part by...
Perfect Ten: Things that turn me off from trying your MMO
Hey, designers, we need to talk. So, if you haven't noticed, I like MMOs. And you're making an MMO. This should be a good...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 371: Upending the mailbag
Justin and Bree dip into the mailbag for discussions on MMO streamlining, vehicles vs. avatars, casual-friendly economies, guild projects and progression, changes to MMOs we don't play, compelling crafting, and other cool MMO sites.
