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– Star Wars Galaxies
– Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida on Stormblood’s release, AI issues, and MMO history
After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...
Raph Koster on roleplaying consent and emotes in Star Wars Galaxies and WoW
MMORPG designer Raph Koster has a fun piece out today, ostensibly about what he's dubbing "consent systems" in multiplayer games that include roleplaying --...
Hyperspace Beacon: Impressions of SWTOR’s Crisis on Umbara update
I questioned BioWare's delay of the latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. According to a post on the official forums, the team...
Star Wars: The Old Republic has launched Crisis on Umbara
You didn't like having to wait unexpectedly for the next major update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We totally understand that. But you...
The Stream Team: Playing through Profit and Plunder in SWTOR’s KOTFE
With chapter XII of SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire wrapped up, Massively OP's Larry and MJ are moving on to chapter XIII, Profit...
Perfect Ten: MMO experiments in transmedia synergy
We're not going to argue that MMORPGs are the dominant form of media entertainment these days, but they do have endurance and a devoted...
The Daily Grind: What’s your comfort MMO?
In all of the years that I've been playing MMORPGs, I've noticed that it is far, far easier to return to a known property...
SWTOR delays Update 5.4 by a day due to a last-minute bug
Sorry to rain on your Umbara parade, SWTOR players, but you're going to have to wait an extra day to dive into the August...
Mass Effect: Andromeda ends single-player support, forges on with multiplayer updates
It's the end of the line for Mass Effect: Andromeda, as BioWare announced this past weekend that it had no further plans to develop...
SWTOR posts Crisis on Umbara patch notes for tomorrow’s update
Nothing wrong with getting patch notes a day early, right? We mean, if you're getting them the day of, you're often too busy jumping...
The MOP Up: Black Desert shows pet love (August 20, 2017)
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...
Here’s your quick guide to SWTOR’s Crisis on Umbara
With Star Wars: The Old Republic Update 5.4 coming out on August 22nd, you may be champing at the bit to get into the...
The Daily Grind: What MMO would you like to see dump its branding or IP?
On Tuesday, Daybreak formally announced that the neglected PvE half of H1Z1, Just Survive, would be shedding its H1Z1 branding once and for all. The...
Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
Star Wars: The Old Republic marches on with class changes
If next Monday is Eclipse Day in North America, is it OK if we deem Tuesday to be Star Wars On A Train Day? Because...
Global Chat: The MMO blogosphere’s reaction to Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
It seems like the entire MMO blogosphere wanted to chip in thoughts on the Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire announcement, whether or not...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Umbara is shrouded in darkness
Have you heard of the planet Umbara before? The Star Wars fan who has seen only the movies will likely say no, and even...
Take a sneak peek at SWTOR’s planet of shadows
There are a billion planets out there in the Star Wars galaxy, and we have visited only a small fraction of them so far...
Massively Overthinking: Is the popularity of small-scale co-op games hurting MMORPGs?
Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...
Here’s what an Elder Scrolls Online LEGO set should look like
An official LEGO set for The Elder Scrolls Online will probably never happen -- although never say never, because SWTOR totally got its line...
