When you play an MMO for long enough they inevitably end up affecting your life in some unexpected ways. Not only will you end up spending hundreds or even thousands of hours in the game itself, but you will also end up obsessing about it outside of the game too. Here are 5 times that… Continue reading 5 Unusual Memories From My Time Playing Star Wars Galaxies
Print editions of The Unofficial and Unauthorized History of Star Wars Galaxies will be available to purchase once more from next month.
For a blog called MMO Folklorist, I've so far managed to go almost a year without writing anything which could confidently be described as a study of folklore. The truth is however that neither myself nor anybody else that I can find has made an effort to define how folklore studies can be applied to… Continue reading An Attempt at Defining the Study of Folklore in MMO’s
New games, an older game, and a dead game.
Over the past weekend I've finally made the jump into a couple of new MMO's after playing The Old Republic and Star Wars Galaxies almost exclusively since... well, forever. My intentions for May were to play through SWGLegends' new Bespin expansion, but when the patch notes revealed that access to the new quests required completion… Continue reading Gaming Plans for June 2021
What better way to celebrate this nonsense "holiday" than with some excellent fan-made game content.
Going hands-on with the first new expansion to hit Star Wars Galaxies in fifteen years.
Festive celebrations, (not) Star Wars-y and iconic questlines, and interior design.
UI anal retentiveness, making my first friends, and big doses of nostalgia.
Thoughts on rogue servers and the contradicting feelings which come with revisiting our favourite virtual worlds.
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