star wars the old republic

Official Site: Star Wars: The Old Republic
Studio: BioWare/Electronic Arts
Launch Date: December 20, 2011
Genre: Sci-Fi Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

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Star Wars The Old Republic shows off its reward for today’s Galactic Season 8

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It's time for Game Update 7.6.1 and a new galactic season called Rising Powers in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and if you assume...
Shoot to wound!

The Daily Grind: Would a Star Wars The Old Republic progression server work?

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A few years ago, it seemed like progression servers were all the rage in MMOs. And why not? They're a great way to revisit...

Star Wars The Old Republic’s March update includes Andor and Skeleton Crew cosmetics

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Earlier this week, Broadsword streamed a preview of Star Wars The Old Republic's 7.6.1 update, whose headline feature is Galactic Season 8, dubbed Rising...

Star Wars: The Old Republic could’ve changed EA forever if it had made billions

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It's quite well-known that Star Wars: The Old Republic wasn't the World of Warcraft-toppling Godzilla that BioWare hoped it would be when the game...
Still proud of this shot.

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025

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A decade is a long time. It's kind of weird that we don't think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade...

Obituary: World of Warcraft and SWTOR sound artist John Kurlander has passed away

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You may not be overly familiar with the name John Kurlander, but we promise you that your ears have experienced his work. Kurlander was...

EA is plotting Apex Legends 2.0 while scapegoating Dragon Age 4’s lack of live-service features

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Last week's news that BioWare had shed a significant portion of its remaining team following Dragon Age: The Veilguard failing to meet EA's ambitious...
It's old.

Ultima Online’s producer steps down after 26 years working on the MMORPG

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It's the end of an era in Ultima Online: Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong has announced what sure sounds like a retirement from her role as...
It's time for THROAT PUNCH, BABY

Star Wars The Old Republic fixes a plethora of issues in its newest patch

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The latest patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic does not deliver a big chunk of content to players or a whole bunch of...
Sort of?

Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with creative idea hooks

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There's so much blatant -- and lazy! -- copying in the world of entertainment and arts that anything novel is to be cherished. I've...

Star Wars: The Old Republic wields the Force (and a patch) against bad loot luck

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If you've been there -- and chances are good you have -- you know that aggravating feeling of hitting a streak of bad loot...

Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most played MMOs in 2025?

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So here we are at the top of another year, looking ahead at what we think we're going to play. Consider this week's Massively...
Less overlapping than you think.

Star Wars The Old Republic prepares for bounties and pirates in January

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You would possibly think that if Star Wars The Old Republic is planning for some bounty hunting fun and some pirate-related fun in January,...

Damion Schubert shares the untold story of Shadowbane’s ‘perfect storm of a horrific live service nightmare’

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Sit down, criss-cross applesauce, and pay attention to Damion Schubert's latest MMO storytime hour! In this edition, the ex-Star Wars: The Old Republic developer...

First Impressions: Corepunk offers equal parts charm and tedium

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Corepunk's a game I've had on my radar for many years. It's suffered through many delays as its then-Ukrainian-based developers faced a level of...

The great and majestic One Shots Awards of 2024

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Forget all of those other Massively OP awards you've seen cross your desktop for the past few weeks -- we all know that there's only...

Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta

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Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...

The Stream Team: On the 13th anniversary, SWTOR gave to me…

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...A stream full of Life Day memories! And Wookiee hugs. And tossing snowballs at overheated droids. Today marks 13 years of SWTOR, and Massively...
Sure.

Betawatch: SWTOR’s Mac test, Stars Reach’s preview, Steel Hunter’s beta weekend

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Some weeks, everyone is going whole-hog on beta developments. And some weeks you have two back-to-back holidays coming up so everyone decides "eh, let's...
hands across whatever this fantasy world is called

Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play

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Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.

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