About

MMO Folklorist is the personal blog of James Crosby.

I’ve been playing games since the early nineties, but after around 2005 – when I first logged in to Star Wars Galaxies – I’ve almost exclusively played MMORPGs.

In 2018 I published my first book, Galaxies: An Empire Remembered, to coincide with the 15th anniversary of the game’s release. It was republished in 2021 as The MMO Folklorist’s Guide to Galaxies.

The MMO Folklorist blog went live in 2020. Besides being a space to write about my own experiences in virtual worlds, it’s also intended to be a resource hub for MMO history and preservation.

A second MMO Folklorist Guide to … book is currently in production with a full announcement to be made in the not too distant future.