star wars galaxies

Official Site: Star Wars Galaxies
Studio: SOE, now Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date: June 26, 2003
Sunset Date: December 15, 2011
Genre: Sci-Fi Sandbox
Business Model: Subscription
Platform: PC

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Is it rogue server week or something? Fans have now announced another privately run Star Wars Galaxies server, this one called SWG: Beyond. Longtime fans...

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Before the Star Wars: The Old Republic Community Cantina, millions of voices were crying out in terror: "We are never going to get any...

The Daily Grind: How open-ended do you want your MMORPGs to be?

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A few months ago, MOP's Justin was gently teasing me about playing on a Star Wars Galaxies emulator, and he asked me about my...

Battle Bards Episode 142: Sunrise, sunset

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In MMORPGs across the world, days are beginning and days are ending — and with them come the catharsis of the sunrise and sunset....

Star Wars Galaxies Emu stress tests all things Jedi – today

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There's a curious air of Star Wars fandom going around this weekend -- for no discernible reason that we can identify -- and that...

Check out Star Citizen’s new ‘environmental AI bounty hunting’ in action

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It's still not really ready for primetime after some much-deserved delays, but Star Citizen's 3.5 alpha features a big chunk of content aimed squarely...

Hyperspace Beacon: I can’t believe I forgot these things about Star Wars Galaxies

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For the last couple of weeks, I've been able to re-experience Star Wars Galaxies. After eight years, I noticed that I might have forgotten...

Star Wars The Old Republic travels to a planet far too remote for an effective demonstration, don’t worry

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Players in Star Wars: The Old Republic are clearly taking a tour of classic Star Wars planets in the updates leading to the rumored...

The Daily Grind: Do you still get excited about upcoming MMORPGs?

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It was the late aughts. My husband and I had scraped together money to fly to London for a meet-up with our Europe-based guildies....

Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator put out a huge March update trying to fix player cities

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The April Fools' Day event isn't the only thing that's recently gone live in the fan-favorite Star Wars Galaxies emulator known as Legends. While...

April Fools’ Day around the MMOverse, 2019 edition

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Yes, it's back, the day when you can believe absolutely nothing and MMO studios are cranking out faux patches that you kinda wish were...

Hyperspace Beacon: This is the toughest choice in Star Wars Galaxies Legends

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I'm Larry, and I'm an altoholic. (Pauses for everyone to say "Hi, Larry.") The toughest part of any game for me is which class...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 213: FFXIV’s first world problems

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Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's controversial reveals, WoW level squish, Albion Online F2P, Glitch, Age of Conan, and Google Stadia, with adventures in Trove, SWG, Starmourn, LOTRO, and Rock Band, and mailbag letter on feeling perpetually behind in MMOs.

Massively Overthinking: Designed downtime in MMORPGs

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In a Daily Grind not long ago, MOP reader Armsbend said something I thought just cried out for discussion. After noting that he had...

Perfect Ten: MMOs that set themselves up as spiritual successors

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As with the larger video game market, sequels aren't unknown in the MMO space. We've seen studios take a stab at following up successful...

Hyperspace Beacon: Which Star Wars Galaxies emulator should I try first?

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As a longtime Star Wars fan and former Star Wars Galaxies player, I've known there were plenty of emulators out there ripe for playing...
I still love you, robot.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 211: Carrying the Torchlight

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Justin and Bree deep-dive Torchlight Frontiers and discuss Path of Exile's Synthesis, the great LOTRO and DDO outage of 2019, the impending end of Kritika Online and the Foundry system in Star Trek Online and Neverwinter, Guild Wars 2's warclaw, Alganon, and a mailbag topic about housing in MMOs.

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for getting your character super drunk?

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Fallout 76's dev blog a few weeks ago about its upcoming brewing and distilling skills - which are actually surprisingly detailed - got me...

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