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Firefall’s Razor’s Edge is finally mostly functional

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The Firefall migration drama is finally over. The servers went down for their planned one-day outage on January 19th for the massive Razor's Edge update,...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO customer experience you’ve ever had?

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Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, before I worked for Massively, I called up SOE. I wanted to move my Star Wars...

Working As Intended: What Star Wars Galaxies got wrong

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If you've listened to Massively's staff and readers talk about Star Wars Galaxies a little bit, you might come away with the impression that...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG for shy gamers?

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A few weeks ago, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wrote about the intersection of social anxiety and MMOs. It was a surprisingly popular article, with gamers...

SWG-inspired sandbox Divergence Online is now on Steam early access

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If you've been waiting over the last week for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release, wait no longer:...

Divergence Online calls for an indefinite moratorium on ‘gaming yelp reviewer bullshit’

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Still waiting for Valve to approve Divergence Online for its inevitable Steam early access release? Stained Glass Llama's Ethan Casner is too. While we...

John Smedley on player emulator projects: ‘Good for them’

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Ex-Daybreak President John Smedley took to Twitter last night to throw his support behind MMO emulator projects. While most studios publicly ignore or condemn these...

Hardcore sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online preps for Steam early access launch

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Sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online is on the way to Steam's early access program -- at least, it will be when someone at Valve wakes...

Massively Overthinking: One MMO wish for 2016

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We gave out a lot of awards this month for things games did in 2015, and we talked about what we think will happen...

MMO Year in Review: A Star Wars Galaxies postmortem (April 2015)

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This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head...

Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on economy, crafting, and Star Wars Galaxies inspiration

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In anticipation of the today's livestream, Camelot Unchained boss Mark Jacobs spoke with us about the implementation of crafting and trade in the game...
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There are eight live SWGemu projects right now

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The Daily Dot has a long piece out this week on its Kernel subsection all about Star Wars Galaxies and its emulator underground. Author Dennis Scimeca...

Massively Overthinking: The next big Star Wars MMORPG

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In honor of Star Wars week (and rumors that EA is working on another Star Wars game), let's talk Star Wars MMOs. Star Wars Galaxies...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest Disappointment of 2015

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the biggest MMO disappointment of 2015. Last year, we gave this "award" to WildStar and ArcheAge in...

Ten years ago today, Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE made the New York Times

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Hat tip to Redditor dejoblue, who's reminded everyone about the fateful day back in 2005 when SOE, struggling in the wake of World of Warcraft's...

Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s 2015 report card

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I’ve never had a chance to do an annual "report card" like this for Elder Scrolls Online because I left the game by the time that...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for the MMO hipster

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I say this with nothing but love in my heart: Some of you guys are serious MMO hipsters. Heck, some of you guys were...

Massively OP’s holiday gift guide for EverQuest franchise and Daybreak fans

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It's that time of year again: when you realize half-way through your indulgence of in-game festivals that you totally forgot to go out and...

The Daily Grind: Do secret classes and hidden content belong in MMOs?

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If you ask old-school Star Wars Galaxies fans about the original implementation of Jedi in the classic version of the game, you're likely to get an earful...

The Daily Grind: Is an MMORPG still an MMORPG without gear progression?

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A Massively OP commenter recently opined that "without gear progression, is a MOBA not an MMORPG," and I would really love to talk...

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