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Disambiguation:
– Star Wars Galaxies
– Star Wars: The Old Republic

The Daily Grind: Do you think EA is pivoting into a Star Wars pseudo-MMO?

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Yesterday's surprise revelation that EA was canning Visceral Games and "pivoting" the design of its in-progress Star Wars linear adventure RPG clearly struck a...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 140: Dubious drops in LOTRO, FFXIV, and SWTOR

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends' Orochi Tower patch, Lord of the Rings' weird patch week, FFXIV's housing mess, SWTOR's balance patch, Warframe's open-world patch, and H1Z1's name-change patch, with a mailbag question about older gamers in MMORPGs.

Battle Bards Episode 107: Blade and Soul expansions

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After 50 episodes, the Battle Bards have made the brave decision to revisit the hallowed lands of Blade and Soul to look at two...

Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s 5.5 adds cringeworthy changes in the name of balance

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Today, when I talk about the balance of a class, I hope you'll understand that I come from the perspective of a PvEer and...
We never like these things.

But seriously, lockboxes suck, even if the ESRB doesn’t think they’re gambling. Stop buying lockboxes.

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So, MMO players. Are you tired of hearing about lockboxes and gambleboxes? It feels like we've been complaining about them for like six or...

Star Wars: The Old Republic GU 5.5 ‘United Forces Foundation’ is live

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Hey, Star Wars fans. I know you're kinda busy with that trailer for Episode VIII and all, but if you actually want to play...

Prosperous Universe is an indie sci-fi sandbox MMORPG focused on player economy

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So here's an MMO we've never heard of before: It's called Prosperous Universe. It's super duper indie alpha browser-based massively online game, with single-shard...

From New York Comic Con, SWTOR and Timothy Zahn welcome you to Copero

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The developers for Star Wars: The Old Republic held their Cantina Tour event just outside New York Comic Con last night. To help promote the SWTOR content...

Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs

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Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...

Star Wars: The Old Republic renames ‘Hot Prospect’ merged server

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Aside from all of the other name issues surrounding Star Wars: The Old Republic's upcoming server merges, there was the reality that one of...

The Stream Team: Taking a story break with SWTOR’s Star Fortresses

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It's not story time! Massively OP's Larry and MJ have been running through SWTOR's story for a long, long time. Today, however, they are...

Hyperspace Beacon: The pros and cons of SWTOR’s United Forces server merges

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First, if you're hoping this is going to be an article hating on server merges and declaring them the ruination of an MMO community,...

Star Wars: The Old Republic offers more details about ‘United Forces’ server merges

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If you're not subscribed to Star Wars: The Old Republic, you can forget about keeping your name. Subscribers will always win over non-subscribers. It's...

SWTOR’s United Forces update includes a massive server merge

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BioWare has just announced Star Wars: The Old Republic's United Forces update, a massive merge of the game's 17 servers down to five in...

One Shots: Starlight, starbright

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As someone very much on the outside of this whole Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire thing, my observations is that this is some...

SWTOR wheels in its healing classes for invasive surgery

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For better or for worse, BioWare's class designers are hewing through builds for Star Wars: The Old Republic's Update 5.5 -- and they are...

Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box features to look for in a SWTOR guild (or any MMO guild)

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On my server in Star Wars: The Old Republic, there are more guild advertisements than chatter in the general channel on the starter planets...
WHY IS STUFF SO HARD?!

Perfect Ten: How MMORPGs become so darn complicated

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MMOs are complicated. This seems like a fairly non-controversial statement; there are more or less complicated games, but they all tend to be complex...
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SWTOR plays the nerf-and-buff game with Assassins, Shadows, Sages, and Sorcs in 5.5

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The latest set of class changes for Star Wars: The Old Republic are like the circle of life. Deception Assassins and Infiltration Shadows? You've...

Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on guilds, groups, and the social systems that make an MMORPG go ’round

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Over the weekend, the studio behind crowdfunded RvR MMORPG Camelot Unchained released a hefty chunk of its ongoing beta one document, revealing extensive insight into...

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