I heard about a new game in development this weekend called “The Repopulation“. It is a sci-fi themed sandbox MMO due out in Fall 2013. They had a successful Kickstarter campaign this last summer, raising twice their goal. What’s really interesting about this game is that it sounds very much Read more…
The expansion of the pause feature is the single greatest advancement in home entertainment. For most of human civilization, home entertainment (what there was) had the ability to be paused. For adults, media was pretty much limited to books. Books can be set down at any point you wish. This Read more…
I’m sure many of you have heard about the It Gets Better Project. It’s a worthy cause and one step in the process of improving society to be more accepting. Sanya Weathers, a MMO community director, has started an off-shoot campaign on her blog, Eating Bees, to spread this philosophy Read more…
Last time we looked at some of the flaws of SWG. Now we’re going to look at what it right and what made it a wonderful game. Some of these things didn’t survive until the end, but many of them managed to endure and even improve. Skill System One of Read more…
The last few days I looked at my history with SWG. During that trip I took a look at the game and how it evolved and how that effected the game. Today I’m going to look specifically the good and the bad parts of SWG, and how they effected the Read more…
It is rather bitter sweet that today I’m going to talk about some of my worst and best memories of SWG. We left off last time with the CU and the summer of 2005. I graduated from grad school, had no job lined up. My search was very narrow since Read more…
By the spring of 2004, SWG had added player cities, some vehicles and everyone was eagerly anticipating the release of the Jump to Light Speed, which would add the missing space component to the game. My friend Zeric and his brother had both reduced their play time in the game Read more…
My experience with Star Wars Galaxies began in early 2003. I didn’t follow the development of the game until close to it’s launch. This was the early days of MMO’s and I had played none of them. My sister and brother-in-law were avid EQ player so I was familiar with Read more…
I received an email the other day from Sony Online Entertainment informing me that Star Wars Galaxies would be shutting down in December. I haven’t actively played SWG since at least 2009 but it is still sad to hear that a game I once loved will be shutting down. Raph Read more…
Today in Tobold’s blog he asked whether people prefer to buy “useful items” or “useless fluff” in Free-to-Play MMO’s. I’d agree with the statement that the discussion is normally dominated by people who wouldn’t buy either, so they naturally don’t want anyone buying anything useful. Since I’m not one of Read more…