I remember when I first got into Everquest II and how much I hated having to look for groups to complete the “kill xx number of xx” quest that would gain me the experience jump that solo-killing mobs wouldn’t. It was a harrowing task for a DPS class as was the case of any MMO of that time period. Talk to one of these guys authoring articles to complain about the Star Wars: The Old Republic tool for uniting people into groups... 

One of these days I am going to be able to bring up an MMORPG in conversation and it won’t descend into a discussion on Star Wars Galaxies, Dark Age of Camelot, or Ultima Online.  I really, really wish we could bury these fossils and leave them out of conversation when dealing with newer games on the horizon. My fellow keybinders, can we please change the song on that broken jukebox already? Come on we all know the pattern and... 

If you’ve been playing MMORPGs for as long as I have, you know that The World of Warcraft, while being the most successful of the genre, managed to set a hard rift in the timeline of MMO games. What do I mean? Well prior to WoW the MMORPG standard was one way, then after Blizzard changed the game to cater to a more casual crowd – well most developers since have tried to adopt a similar model. Well the problem has been that... 

At the end of this year (12/15/2011) Star Wars Galaxies will be officially over, servers will be taken down and the game will be done. Although it has been dead for quite a few of us who played at launch, it was still very much a live game to many role-players and social gamers who held on. Some are taking it really, really hard. Since SWG was such a big deal to gaming, especially MMORPG we figured a memorial is in order to show... 

During the final year of my control of Rafian Heilong, former Rebel Alliance leader, swordsman and Teras Kasi – I made the plunge into the Jedi skill-set and role-played the life of Rafian through a journal that I made public for my fellow gamers. What you are about to read is the struggle of a man who became a Jedi without the tutorship and guidance of a light or dark master. It shows Raf’s struggle to remain a good... 

The art of flipping money is a study that gets mixed results from everybody. One man applauds your genius for attaining wealth, another is mad at you for “ripping people off” and then there’s the rest who feel that you owe them something. I attributed these attitudes to the weight of the outside world but when I found the same thing happening in a Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game, I realized that it... 

Jumping the Shark – It’s a term that came about after the hit 60′s show Happy Days decided to have their cultural icon of a bad boy Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli jump a shark in an episode. The series flopped hard after that and the legendary phrase was forever adopted to mean a decision that causes a show (or in this instance a game) to fail. There have been many speculations on MMOs jumping the shark,... 

All of us SWG Vets love to reminisce on the original Star Wars MMORPG. To the outsider it would seem like it was the god of all MMO’s and perfect in every single way. One thing that we tend to do as fans however, is to hold on to the positives and forget that the negatives ever existed. People act as if the NGE was the only downside to the old game and are now hesitant to try Bioware’s The Old Republic in fear of it... 

It still baffles my mind to this day as to why Star Wars Galaxies and Everquest (though not so much) are the only MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game) to cater successfully to different types of gamers. There is a continuous stream of newer, prettier MMO games being released yearly, yet they all offer the same crap in a different shell. They are one-dimensional, RPGs (minus the RP) that are meant as time-sinks to... 

“The thing that I have found in my years of playing is that people are people, childish 40 yr olds are still childish 40 yr olds whether they are role-playing an elf running a bar or tea-bagging an enemy in PvP. You do not lose these people by choosing either of these extremes. Learn to respect each other’s choice and play the game already.” MMORPGs – The ultimate game for roleplay gamers with a desire to fellowship....