Archive for the ‘Social Points’ Category

Social Points: Can you save a guild?

Can you save a guild? In previous articles I’ve talked at length about what makes a guild strong and what can kill one. But what do you do if your guild is a long way off the tracks and you want to set things right? Guild death Guilds can die for a variety of reasons [...]

Social Points: The SWTOR community post F2P

Well, it’s nearly November and Free to Play will soon be here. Seeing as everyone and their tauntaun fawn is writing about it I’m going to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon. As anyone who reads my column regularly will know, SWTOR is not my only current MMO – I’m a big Aion fan [...]

Free to Play and 1.4 questions answered in the Q&A livestream!

Last week Jae brought us news that BioWare would be holding a monthly livestream event with Lucas Arts to discuss upcoming features in Star Wars: The Old Republic. This goes some way towards replacing the regular Community Q&As which were discontinued last month, and the topics this time were the 1.4 update Terror From Beyond and the [...]

Social Points: Guilds in crisis

This time last year many guilds were just getting started, taking advantage of the Guild Prelaunch System to create pages and advertise for recruits. Hopes were high, plans were made, and some of the guilds playing together now were ones that began in those early days. A year on, many of the guilds that started [...]

Social Points: Getting down with the music makers of The Old Republic

MMORPGs like Star Wars: The Old Republic seem to attract many creative types. Over the last few months we’ve featured loads of fantastic player created artwork, stories, guides, comics and cosplayers, but there’s one area we haven’t looked at recently – fan made SWTOR music videos! This week, I’ve been delving into the depths of [...]

Social Points: Getting Crafty!

Aah crafting, the lovable time thief of MMOs. Except, of course, that in SWTOR you can get your slaves, sorry, companions, to do all the work while you sit back drinking beer or joyriding across the galaxy (but not at the same time, of course). For me, an avid crafter, the ability to send my [...]

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