MMO Week in Review: The bold republic

by Brianna Royce on Jun 17th 2012 8:00PM

Massively Meta, Week in Review, Miscellaneous

At the end of every week, we round up the best and most popular news stories, exclusive features, and insightful columns published on Massively and then present them all in one convenient place. If you missed a big MMO or WoW Insider story last week, you've come to the right post.

This week, Star Wars: The Old Republic stole the MMO spotlight with two waves of server ~~merges~~ transfers intended to unify the reduced population, which confused some players as to the fate of origin servers, was met with glee by the usual pool of TOR-haters, and left everyone else wondering what the fuss was about.

Adding to the drama this week, the game's representatives made noise about possible changes to its business model: EA's head honcho proclaimed an intent to "embrace" free models for the title in the long-term, while BioWare's lead developer suggested that the studio is already investigating free-to-play.

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