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Star Wars: The Old Republic runs Sage, Vanguard, and Scoundrel combat styles through their paces
Have you figured out what class and combat style combination you'll be rolling when Star Wars: The Old Republic launches Legacy of the Sith...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPGs of all time, 2021 edition
Five years ago this week - back in 2016 - the MOP team and readers did an epic Massively Overthinking picking out their top...
Star Wars The Old Republic unveils legendary items arriving with Legacy of the Sith
Much of the noise made about the Legacy of the Sith expansion for Star Wars: The Old Republic has been focused around combat styles,...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMOs have endings – or at least end points?
I suspect most MMO players are going to read that question and immediately balk at it. We think of MMOs as being defined in...
Star Wars The Old Republic brings combat styles for Sith Warrior and Bounty Hunter advanced classes to PTS
It appears that Star Wars: The Old Republic is ramping up its combat style testing efforts. Now that the Sith Assassin and Sorcerer classes...
Massively Overthinking: Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?
Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...
One Shots: Boom, said the world
You'd think that a world that's already been nuked into a radioactive wasteland wouldn't need any additional bombs lobbed at its surface, but several...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why do we know so little about Fate of Gundabad?
Over the past few months, my general sense of rising hope for Lord of the Rings Online has been tempered by a nagging disquiet...
Combat style testing for Star Wars The Old Republic now moves to the Assassin and Sorcerer classes
Public testing for the new combat styles of Star Wars: The Old Republic's classes rolls on. As of yesterday, the game's PTR has started...
Star Wars: The Old Republic makes a mystery merchant always available
According to Wookieepedia, the man known as Kai Zykken is "a male Human who was captain of the Corellian Run Scoundrels, a pirate gang...
Star Wars The Old Republic talks system design as a new KOTOR remake is unveiled
The gameplay loops that keep players chasing goals in Star Wars: The Old Republic is all powered by system design, which is the topic...
The Soapbox: Single-player open worlds will never equal those of MMORPGs
These days it seems like sprawling open worlds are becoming an ever more popular choice for single-player games, from the newer Assassin's Creed titles...
Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs
About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called "but I already have that game" about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of...
Perfect Ten: MMO character customization options that don’t get enough love
There are two types of people in the world: those who can't get through the character creation menu fast enough to start playing "LordBladezz"...
Star Wars The Old Republic patches in bug fixes and new looting system today
It's patch day over in the galaxy of Star Wars The Old Republic, with GU 6.3.2 on deck. It's not the most exciting patch...
The Game Archaeologist: Jeff Butler on EverQuest, EverQuest Next, and Vanguard
As an MMO historian, I have to applaud the work of former SOE developer Shawn Lord in his huge interview series with the people...
The Daily Grind: What are your fall MMO plans?
After a brief August lull in the crazy launch cycle that's been 2021, we're looking to ramp back up again with a lot of...
Massively Overthinking: The worst chat in the MMORPG genre
The first rule of MMORPGs is turn off global chat. Think about that for a sec. This is a genre that is expressly multiplayer...
One Shots: Catniss Everkeen
"The true endgame of FFXIV is fashion, but in the process of documenting my many many glamours sometimes I get a cool action shot,"...
The Daily Grind: List your favorite expansion to every MMO you’ve played
Lists -- we're doing one today. And it has the potential to be a really fun one!
The challenge is fairly simple: Make a list...
