Official Site:Â Star Wars Galaxies
Studio:Â SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â June 26, 2003
Sunset Date: December 15, 2011
Genre:Â Sci-Fi Sandbox
Business Model:Â Subscription
Platform: PC
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Perfect Ten: The worst MMORPG expansions of all time
A great MMO expansion brings so much to the table: fresh excitement for a game, new classes, innovative features, expanded vistas, additional races, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 205: Dragons and other MMO rarities
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Elsweyr, Breach, Nexon, ArcheAge, Pantheon, FFXIV, SWG Legends, CrossCode, and the harms of early access.
Tamriel Infinium: Examining the features (and hype!) of Elder Scrolls Online’s Season of the Dragon
I have mixed feelings about dragons coming to Elder Scrolls Online. Originally, we knew that we would not see them because they were hibernating...
Project Horseshoe’s design papers confirm decades of MMORPG lessons
Not everyone involved in game design is trying to squeeze every last penny out of you. Yes, a lot of them are, but many...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 204: SpatialOS spasms
Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.
The Daily Grind: What dead MMO needs more coverage?
One of the humorous awards we've given out in the past - but didn't in 2018 - was our award for the dead game...
What Destiny 2 could’ve learned about community puzzle gating… from Star Wars Galaxies
Say you're the developer of an online shooter, but you really want to add something that challenges the players in a world where they...
Co-op ARPG Breach hits early access January 17, with packages live now
Co-op ARPG Breach was meant to hit early access before the end of 2018, and as it turns out, it'll be only a few...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 203: New year, same old loot
Justin, Bree, Eliot, and Chris team up for an end-of-the-year roundtable to recap our massive annual awards rollout, our holiday gaming fun, and the Atlas launch.
Vague Patch Notes: The complexity of classic preservation for MMOs
Here's a fun question to kick things off. Should old black-and-white films be colorized? The key word there is "old," because there are a...
Star Wars Galaxies emulator plans Carrie Fisher tribute event on December 27
When Carrie Fisher died two years ago this month, I actually sat in my car and cried. This is not something I normally do,...
The best Massively OP streams of 2018
Massively OP's long-running Stream Team, unquestionably captained by MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Andrew, got a welcome surprise this year: Our newest writer, Chris...
Jukebox Heroes: More MMO Christmas tunes
Merry Christmas everyone! As you hunker down for family time, presents, eggnog, or simply a quiet day off and some gaming time, chances are...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
SWGEmu reveals costly financial mishap, but the game will continue on
There's some dark news for the original SWGEmu project this week - this'd be the Star Wars Galaxies emu that spawned most of the...
Star Wars Galaxies’ Wookiee Life Day returns on the Legends emu – nobody can sunset the Holiday Special
If for some reason you're angling to check out an MMO holiday inspired by a television special so terrible that George Lucas has spent...
Ultima Online’s Raph Koster says Fortnite is more like an MMO than we might think
It's like people are discovering MMOs all over again.
Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies creator Raph Koster recently expressed amusement at the culture and...
The Stream Team: Commemorating Star Wars Galaxies’ deathday in an emu
Massively OP's MJ celebrates Star Wars Galaxies with an Emu romp for its birthday, but this year she's also going to have a memorial...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2018
We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...
Vague Patch Notes: The taxonomy of corporate apologies in video games
Somehow, Bethesda managed to persevere after the Great Canvas Shortage of 2018 to replace the Fallout 76 CE bags that were essentially plastic shopping bags...
