James Crosby

Galactic Flyby: Star Wars Galaxies Restoration

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Oct 8, 2022

The Galactic Flyby is a new column where I’ll be weighing in with my hands-on impressions of Star Wars Galaxies’ rogue servers. Each month I’ll be dropping by a different server to check out the community and any unique content that the volunteer developer teams are offering to set themselves apart from the pack. Naturally,…

Star Wars Galaxies Rogue Server Roundup – September 2022

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Oct 4, 2022

Only a handful of servers saw updates in September, but there are some major new additions among those publishes. This month, most of the attention has been on the Restoration 3 server, as it released its long-awaited 1.0 update and dropped the ‘3‘ in its name. With all the chatter around that server, it might’ve…

Final Fantasy XIV: 5 things I loved and 3 things I didn’t

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Sep 23, 2022

After 300 hours of playtime across 18 months, I’ve finally finished Final Fantasy XIV‘s MSQ. Watching the end credits scroll I realized that I had just wrapped up one of the great gaming experiences of my life. A game which genuinely made me reconsider what the genre, heck even the entire medium, could achieve in…

I finally appreciate story-driven MMOs

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Sep 18, 2022

Last night I decided to check out the new 1.0 update on the Star Wars Galaxies Restoration server. I created a handsome-looking Ithorian character and was promptly dropped into the middle of Mos Eisley. I had no idea what to do next. Obviously, having played the game on and off for nearly two decades, I…