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Star Wars Galaxies creator Raph Koster to release postmortem book on MMORPGs

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Raph Koster is certainly a well-known name in the MMORPG industry who has spent his career working on titles such as Ultima Online, Star...

Hyperspace Beacon: The sorry state of roleplay in Star Wars: The Old Republic

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Since the server merges, the Star Forge server has unofficially become the roleplay server for Star Wars: The Old Republic. And roleplaying's fight to...

Solo has a couple blink-and-you’ll-miss-it references to Star Wars Galaxies

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One of the best aspects of all of the new Disney Star Wars films is their references to places, events, and characters outside of...

The Daily Grind: Should running multiple MMO accounts be considered pay-to-win?

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In the comments of a recent Daily Grind, MOP commenter Sally reminded me that a certain MOP writer who shall remain nameless (Larry!) had...

The Daily Grind: Have you ever walked away from an MMO over a studio’s treatment of its playerbase?

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Star Wars Galaxies' NGE is one of the MMORPG genre's favorite bugbears: We pull it out as a warning, a label of doom, every...

A real-life lobbyist is running for the EVE Online CSM

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Want politics out of your games? What about politicians? And do you mean it literally? Because... they walk among us. Kotaku put out a piece...

Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding

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Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while. "I have noticed raiding tends to...
Hit it harder!

The Daily Grind: Would you appreciate the option to swap your MMO class?

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I'm no stranger to the allure of alts in MMO, but there are some games where the content is so massive that I don't...
Stop boring everybody.

H1Z1 is finally coming to PlayStation 4

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Did you think slipping player numbers were going to do in the battle royale grand-daddy? Nope. Free-to-play must have been a big boost, as...

Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs

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Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...

GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel

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Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...

GDC 2018: Hands-on with Trion’s ‘reimagined’ Defiance 2050

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Before my GDC interview with Producer Matt “Destromathe” Pettit last week, I was really frustrated with the news about Defiance 2050. I wasn't a huge fan...
Yes, yes it is.

The gaming community rallies around EverQuest Next AI developer Dave Mark

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A renowned game AI designer who worked on EverQuest Next and John Smedley's Hero's Song is the focal point of concern following an accident...
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Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise

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MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...

Raph Koster on the ESA’s DMCA battle: ‘Preservation matters’

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Remember last week when we covered how the Entertainment Software Association is fighting a proposal to amend the DMCA that would help preserve online...

The Daily Grind: Given H1Z1’s plight, are you worried about Daybreak?

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Last week, it became clear that H1Z1 has forfeited a ton of ground in the battle over battle royale games as it's lost 90%...

Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPGs should stay away from legacy servers?

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Legacy, vanilla, classic, progression - call them what you like, but alternative server rulesets, particularly of the nostalgia-driven kind, are all the rage in...

Raph Koster calls potential manipulative MMO microtransaction AI ‘horrendous’

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Here is some nightmare fuel for gamers imagining the future of the industry. How about an artificial intelligence that deliberately manipulates and messes with...

The Game Archaeologist: Fallen Age

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Imagine that one day you wake up, stumble to your computer, and check in on the morning news. Among the various tidbits is a...
Something like that, anyhow.

The Daily Grind: Have you ever taken drugs in an MMORPG?

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Probably my favorite screenshot in an MMO is the one I took back in 2003 or so, when my Star Wars Galaxies character was...

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