Disambiguation:
– Star Wars Galaxies
– Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Star Wars The Old Republic players will be getting a more efficient and faster launcher soon™
I'm going to be honest, whenever I get the random urge to re-install Star Wars: The Old Republic, I'm almost immediately punished for it...
Massively Overthinking: Have you ever returned to an old MMO and fallen in love?
Earlier this month, MOP's Eliot penned a WoW Factor that doesn't quote but certainly does evoke the ol' Heraclitus quote about how you cannot...
The Stream Team: The republic stories of SWTOR’s Balmorra, Taris, and Corellia
After a brief interlude of new content, Massively OP's Larry and MJ are ready to return to the Republic planetary stories Balmorra, Taris, and...
SWG Restoration launches 1.0 version on Saturday with Mustafar and Jedi unlocks
Among the many (many!) player-run rogue servers for the long-defunct Star Wars Galaxies is Star Wars Galaxies Restoration III, a hybrid CU/NGE server that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 388: Elyon descends through finite care
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic's Wrath pre-patch, New World's new servers, Elyon's sunset, Bless Unleashed's sunset, EVE Online Uprising, Star Trek Online's Wil Wheaton, and Temtem's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and SWG Legends, with a lightning round of MMO questions from the mailbag.
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online
Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends has officially kicked off its 2022 abandoned housing pack-up event
Star Wars Galaxies deals with packing up abandoned player structures a bit differently. Instead of simply bundling up buildings and making them disappear from...
Massively Overthinking: The weirdest ways we’ve leveled in MMOs
One of my favor flavors of fluff post we do occasionally is report on folks who have accomplished fame by leveling "wrong" in MMOs,...
Global Chat: How can MMOs help us navigate better?
Contains Moderate Peril recently tackled a subject that is very near to my heart, which is the tools, difficulty, and art of navigating around...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends’ latest update brings GCW changes, ability updates, and more decor items
The latest summer update for rogue server Star Wars Galaxies Legends has arrived, and while it's not bringing anything particularly explosive to the game,...
MMO dev Raph Koster disambiguates sandboxes, themeparks, simulation, and stagecraft
Veteran MMO developer Raph Koster, who himself is working on a sandbox MMO couched in a metaverse, is back with another dev blog this...
Massively Overthinking: Who’s really paying for MMOs?
Two years ago, we did a piece on dark patterns in MMO design, and in the comments, a reader named Shadex De'Marr penned a...
NetEase snaps up Detroit Become Human developer Quantic Dream
Like a person going grocery shopping, NetEase is casually strolling up and down the aisles of the video game industry deciding which studio to...
The Stream Team: Showing off SWTOR’s newest content
Not only does it take forever for SWTOR to introduce more content, but it has trickled down to only small puddles to splash in....
Star Wars: The Old Republic outlines its plans for events through the month of September
A long time ago (the beginning of August), in a galaxy far, far away (in-universe), Star Wars: The Old Republic started the Nar Shadda...
The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO system you just do not understand no matter how hard you try?
Today's Daily Grind is inspired by a blog from friend of the site Ocho over at Casual Aggro in which he chronicles his attempts...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends will let players relive the classic city-destroying Battle of Restuss on September 2
Star Wars lore nerds are probably familiar with the Battle of Restuss, which saw Imperial and Rebel forces fight over a new technology known...
Vague Patch Notes: Novelty is a contradiction in an MMORPG genre that discourages it
The newest member of the Big Five in the MMO space released in the west back in 2015, which was seven years ago now....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 386: Lord of Lord of the Rings Online
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's mini-expansion and IP rights, Dual Universe, Mad World, Wrath Classic's prepatch, Alganon's return, and Guild Wars 2's Steam launch, with adventures in LOTRO, CoH, SWGL, and RIFT, plus a mailbag question on Ultima Online New Legacy.
The Daily Grind: Which MMO farming system is the most fun?
I have to admit I allow myself a little self-satisfied giggle every time I see a major or minor MMORPG adding or enhancing farming...
