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The Daily Grind: How do you solve the MMORPG ‘Jedi Problem’?
MOP reader Witches noted in the comments of last week's Perfect Ten that Firefly seems to be better-suited for the kind of world that...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster and Thomas Blair on the challenges of MMORPG harvesting
Harvesting in an MMORPG is just the boring gruntwork you have to trudge through before you can get to the glory of crafting --...
Leaderboard: Is Pokemon GO an MMORPG?
Earlier this week, one of the founding designers of the MMORPG genre, Raph Koster, penned a blog piece arguing that alternate reality games like...
Raph Koster says that augmented reality games like Pokemon GO are MMOs
Want some justification that the time you're spending on Pokémon GO and Ingress isn't pointless? The creative brain behind Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies sticks...
The Game Archaeologist: Five eye-opening videos about the MMORPG genre
When it comes to tracking down history for MMOs, I've found that there are an array of sources at hand that have preserved (unwittingly...
Make My MMO: SOTA’s new dude, Sacrament’s Kickstarter (March 19, 2016)
Shroud of the Avatar is about to get a new dude -- a new male avatar, that is. Come release 28, SOTA's art team...
Raph Koster on Crowfall’s social gameplay and robber-baron badasses
This month's Crowfall Q&A video is all about social systems, which means design consultant and MMO industry veteran Raph Koster is on camera to...
Working As Intended: What Star Wars Galaxies got wrong
If you've listened to Massively's staff and readers talk about Star Wars Galaxies a little bit, you might come away with the impression that...
The Daily Grind: Which old MMORPG deserves more love?
Last week, MMO designer Raph Koster made a Twitter comment that's stuck in my mind:
https://twitter.com/raphkoster/status/682380531934322688
Hell yes it has. It's getting mainstream and indie attention left...
‘Father of MMORPGs’ Richard Bartle is publishing new books on the genre
"Father of MMORPGs" Dr. Richard Bartle, author of the pioneering research that spawned the Bartle test, is publishing two new books about our imperiled genre.
MMOs from...
MMO Year in Review: A Star Wars Galaxies postmortem (April 2015)
This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head...
There are eight live SWGemu projects right now
The Daily Dot has a long piece out this week on its Kernel subsection all about Star Wars Galaxies and its emulator underground.
Author Dennis Scimeca...
The MOP Up: TERA’s creepy cat mounts (November 15, 2015)
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...
Raph Koster: Game developer, and now published poet
People wear many hats in life, and noted game developer Raph Koster has donned another one that most folks aren't used to seeing him...
The Game Archaeologist: Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE
It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood.
For all that the MMO community...
Raph Koster: Crowfall ‘can feel more like a living world’
ArtCraft's Raph Koster is the star witness of an in-depth interview in which he discusses the development of Crowfall using the perspective of his...
Ask Mo: If Star Wars Galaxies is so smart, why ain’t it rich?
Star Wars Galaxies would have been 12 years old this week, had it lived a day past Star Wars: The Old Republic. That makes...
Massively Overthinking: When IPs are wasted on mediocre MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Aldranis, whose query neatly dovetails with the IP-related question we answered on the...
Raph Koster used MMO design to help revitalize a bar trivia game
You might know Raph Koster from his MMO legacy as a designer on Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies, or perhaps from his current...
Koster’s final post-mortem: Did Star Wars Galaxies fail?
Raph Koster has wrapped up his Star Wars Galaxies retrospective with a blog post that asks whether or not the sci-fi MMORPG failed.
It's a...
