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Disney invests $1.5B into Epic Games with plans to create a ‘huge Disney...
Seeing Disney’s various IPs in Fortnite isn’t exactly news by this point, but it appears as if there will be a whole lot more of the House of Mouse’s characters within the games platform, and it’s all...
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Star Wars Galaxies’ Restoration rogue server launches Schisms of Heretics...
If there were an award for slick rogue server promotions, Star Wars Galaxies Restoration 3 would win it this month, as the announcement newsletter for its Publish 1.2 The Schisms of Heretics includes...
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost a house in an MMO?
Last week, fellow MMO blogger Belghast wrote a blog post that sent a shot of panic through my own heart: He tells the tale of forgetting to log into Final Fantasy XIV for a few months and having his...
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Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best...
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to do was head over to a supergroup base portal, type in the code flashed in text, and...
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One Shots: Sky control to Major Tom
I have to imagine that there’s no more stressful job in a galaxy far, far away than being an air traffic controller for Coruscant. That’s like playing three-dimensional Pac-Man with thousands of users...
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Star Wars Galaxies Legends dropped a massive player city upgrade (with...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is the home of the event we called the most cursed Valentine’s Day event in MMOs as well as the winner of our 2023 Golden Yachtie award for most cursed...
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SWTOR teases GU 7.4.1 Building a Foundation’s Copero Stronghold and Date...
The BioWare-turned-Broadsword team behind Star Wars The Old Republic is once again heading to Twitch to outline the game’s immediate future, which includes GU 7.4.1 and Galactic Season 6: Building a...
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One Shots: The mosh pit of friendship
I don’t know about you, but when I get together with 75 of my closest friends, I like to crowd right up on them on an easy-to-fall-off-of pier and then toss flowers into the air. But Final Fantasy XIV...
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The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG’s graphics hold up long past their due?
When Dark Age of Camelot first hit beta a million years ago, I remember being super impressed with its graphics. Up until that point, the major MMORPGs were Ultima Online, EverQuest, Asheron’s Call,...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 458: PlanetSide 2 in limbo
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak selling PlanetSide, Nightingale's early access, Islands of Insight's launch, and NCsoft's financials with Guild Wars 2 and Throne & Liberty, with adventures in...
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Star Wars The Old Republic releases a teaser trailer for its upcoming...
We’re not sure how many Star Wars: The Old Republic fans had “repeatable cinematic romance missions” on their bingo cards when the MMORPG traded hands to Broadsword, but Date Night missions are most...
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Vague Patch Notes: What does the future of MMORPGs look like?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the history of MMORPGs as a market and PC gaming in general, suggesting at the end that we’d next talk about the future of that market. Let’s do that today....
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One Shots: What am I looking at here?
Sometimes a screenshot ends up in my lap that I stare at for a long time and still have no idea what’s going on in it. Then again, I failed modern art in college, so my brain might not be wired to...
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever gone a long period without playing MMORPGs?
I was thinking about this topic a few weeks ago when chatting with MOP’s Eliot about some of our formative experiences in the genre. I never really got on with EverQuest 1; I found it deeply...
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SWTOR initiates a pirate-laden PvP season as S5 Pirate’s Plunder begins
Star Wars has had its fair share of pirates and scoundrels over the years, and for 12 weeks this winter, SWTOR players are invited to dip into the underworld to grab some new rewards as they duke it...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 459: A Gigantic return
Justin and Bree discuss Nightingale's launch, Gigantic's return, Guild Wars 2's Realm of Dreams, and Last Epoch's launch, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, City of Heroes, and SWG...
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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with interesting Guinness World Records
I never quite know how much stock to put in Guinness World Records. I guess it’s somewhere between “for amusement value” and “stone cold authentication.” But these awards are always interesting and can...
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EA lays off nearly 700 workers to ‘deliver the entertainment players want’...
If your friends decided to jump off a bridge lay off hundreds of the very workers who made their products, would you do it too? Apparently EA would, as it’s adding to the ongoing games industry carnage...
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Star Wars Galaxies Legends turns eight years old with badges, paintings, and...
It’s hard for me to believe that Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is officially eight years old this week, but it’s true, and the player-run dev team behind the project are celebrating with...
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One Shots: Slice me a chunk of that moon cheese, would ya
You have to love the absolute hubris of Jedi in Star Wars because there’s no object that they don’t think they can levitate, smash, or slice into tiny bits with their laser pointers. Even the moon....
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Perfect Ten: MMOs where you can play as robots and cyborgs
Robots are, let’s face it, very important. You might say that’s not true, and to that I say: When you get to write the columns, you get a rebuttal, but otherwise hush up. Robots are the best. And...
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Hey game devs, stop namedropping Star Wars Galaxies and make a spiritual...
If you’re an MMORPG gamer who watches the mainstream gaming space, you probably know that most gaming sites take any opportunity they can get to take a giant dump all over MMOs, especially classic and...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic’s date night patch goes live on Tuesday
Don’t be deceived by the over-abundance of decimal points — Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Update 7.4.1 will be fully operational and chock-full of interesting developments for this intergalactic...
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The newly recognized Activision QA United is now the biggest union in the US...
Yet another group of Activision-Blizzard workers under Microsoft have voted to unionize: a reported 600 Activision central QA workers in Texas, Minnesota, and California have unionized under the CWA...
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Working As Intended: Cloud City apartments and player cities on Star Wars...
It’s been a while since I did a deep-dive into Star Wars Galaxies Legends, the rogue server that’s been one of my main MMORPG homes for the last half decade, but this winter demands it, specifically...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your current backup MMORPG?
I’m really enjoying what I’m considering my second wind in MMORPGs, fam. I had a rough spot in the mid-teens after the original Star Wars Galaxies and City of Heroes games shut down, compounded by a...
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SWTOR’s Building a Foundation update arrives today with date nights and a new...
Couldn’t get a date to the prom in high school? Weirdly enough, Star Wars: The Old Republic has you covered as it brings good old-fashioned date nights with today’s Update 7.4.1: Building a Foundation....
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 461: Dune Awakening rises from its slumber
Justin and Bree discuss Camelot Unchained, Final Stand Ragnarok, WoW Cataclysm Classic, Dune Awakening, New World, and Albion Online, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and...
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One Shots: Murderhobo and the Moon
Do you ever wonder what the last thing you’ll ever see in this world before you bite the big one? I just hope it’s not our headlining picture because I’d rather not die shortly after wetting my pants....
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Star Wars Galaxies Restoration rogue server is working on new races and the...
One of the best parts of the Star Wars Galaxies MMORPG fandom is that we have so very many rogue servers to choose from, as our favorite MMO Folklorist has chronicled. Among them – and one of the...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 462: Awaiting Brighter Shores
Justin and Bree discuss EverQuest's 25th birthday, Brighter Shores' announcement, Star Citizen's 1.0 tease, SWTOR's date night patch, Elder Scrolls Online's DLC, and LOTRO's Update 39, with adventures...
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Perfect Ten: MMOs with live-action media tie-ins
Every so often I think to myself that a video game should get some kind of media adaptation before I come to my senses. Like, imagine a Final Fantasy VII movie! Except then you should imagine...
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Global Chat: EverQuest hits the quarter-century mark
There’s no way that The Ancient Gaming Noob would miss out on EverQuest’s 25th anniversary: “So there is a lot going on if you are into the game. It is hard to gauge how accessible EQ is now to new...
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The Daily Grind: What’s your most-used consumable in MMORPGs?
I’ve been thinking a lot of about economy problems lately – economy problems in MMORPGs, that is. It’s a confluence of discussions, really: my gnawing belief that stagflation is hurting Star Wars...
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Massively Overthinking: What’s the most polarizing topic in your favorite...
I was playing Lord of the Rings Online last weekend when my server naturally veered off into one of its favorite discussions: whether Moria sucks. (Honestly, any conversation is better than whether...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 463: WoW’s pirates storm the gangplank
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta...
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Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It’s hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out… and then returns in a surprising but welcome fashion. In today’s list, we’re...
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One Shots: Pollen attack!
There are many ways to kill a man. A dagger in the back. A sifter full of poison. A smothering pillow. A duel at high noon with rapiers. A highly trained attack dog. A giant… lily…? Well, tell me this:...
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Working As Intended: The top 10 hot tubs in MMORPGs
It’s been a running joke for a few years that I always put hot tubs in my MMO houses whenever possible, and once that became a Whole Thing, I started looking for them in other games too. So, on this...
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Star Wars The Old Republic plots new story content, Lane Vizla missions, and...
With Game Update 7.4 already out the door, the Star Wars: The Old Republic dev team is already looking ahead to releasing Game Update 7.5, which got some fresh new teases in the final paragraph of the...
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 464: Guild Wars 3 is a go
Justin and Bree discuss NCsoft, Guild Wars 3, DCUO, Monsters and Memories, Hellgate, and the LOTRO downtime, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, and Valheim, plus a mailbag topic on Palia.
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Global Chat: What should we be thinking about Guild Wars 3?
The surprising (and not surprising) news that ArenaNet has the go-ahead from NCsoft to develop Guild Wars 3 sent ripples of interest, confusion, and curiosity throughout the fandom. Riding that wave is...
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The Daily Grind: Do you play different MMORPGs for different content types?
A while back on the MOP Podcast, I was waxing on about housing and crafting and player cities in SWG Legends, when Justin asked jokingly, “Do you even do any combat in that game?” And I laughed because...
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Vague Patch Notes: Game preservation is way more complicated than it seems
Before I say anything with this week’s article, I want to make something very, very clear right from the premise: As you have probably gathered by now, I am very much in favor of game preservation. I...
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The Daily Grind: What’s the first thing you do when returning to a...
I admit that I have a weakness to MMOs that woo me back into playing them. So when SWTOR changed hands to Broadsword and showed signs of actual life again, I gladly allowed myself to be pulled back...
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The Daily Grind: What percent of your MMO gaming should be combat?
MMO combat is fun. It is. I love trying out combat skills, grouping with friends to take down bosses, and hearing the sound of smashed bones when I bash a skellie with my mace. For the vast majority of...
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The Stream Team: SWTOR’s companion date nights
Are you a fan of date nights? How about in SWTOR? No, we don’t mean having a date night to play SWTOR with your companion, but a date with your in-game companions! Massively OP’s Larry & MJ haven’t...
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Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases ships, city structures, and Jedi Themepark...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has dropped its spring newsletter, with a few teases about the future of the game – in some cases, just images really, feelings. We spy what looks like a new...
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Massively Overthinking: How long should it take MMO players to get to ‘endgame’?
With Throne & Liberty’s latest global underway, I want to point back to something Amazon said about the test for our Massively Overthinking discussion this week. Amazon said it had dropped the...
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Star Wars Galaxies Legends expands its bounty hunting system into space with...
Hot on the heels of its spring newsletter, Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has dropped its April content update, and as one Discord fan put it, “tldr patch notes – these devs are doing the...
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