This post originally appeared on Massively by Editor-in-Chief Brianna Royce. 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.

This week, BioWare performed an abrupt about-face on housing in MMORPGs, revealing during a livestream that Star Wars: The Old Republic will install its own system of player apartments to complement the existing private ship instances. Massively's Larry Everett broke down the video, speculating that housing will be faction-based and will have kiosks for mail, missions, decorating, appearance/outfit design, and HBO Go. Kidding.

Read on for a look at the rest of this week's top MMO stories.

	Exploring weaponcrafting in The Elder Scrolls Online
	Outside the box healing and tanking in The Elder Scrolls Online
	Are you concerned about Elder Scrolls Online's PvP focus?

	Guild Wars 2's Battle for Lion's Arch has begun
	Time for some thrilling heroics in Guild Wars 2

	Star Citizen vid shows off the Hornet's 100 different damage states
	212 devs are working on Star Citizen, dogfighting launch 'shortly after PAX'

	Massively Exclusive: RIFT reveals the Oracle soul
	RIFT, ArcheAge, Defiance, and Trove acquire new community managers
	RIFT previews its new soul, the Liberator

	Hands-on with the Elite: Dangerous alpha
	Path of Exile's Sacrifice of the Vaal expansion has landed
	Funcom's financials take a sharp blow
	WildStar not sending out more mass beta invitations... for this phase
	Indie sandbox MMO The Chosen is the 'game-child' of EVE Online and Fallout 3
	LotRO's big battles are a big bust
	What EQN Landmark's business plan says about you
	Neverwinter's next expansion heads to Icewind Dale
	Exclusive: Turbine on the future of Asheron's Call and the studio
	Why MMO developers need to stop apologizing
	Ten game franchises that became MMOs
	World of Warcraft monkeys with health and heals in Warlords of Draenor
	The Harry Potter Online project appears to be on hold
	Pathfinder Online's Ryan Dancey on crowdforging a 'minimum viable product'
	Blizzard unleashes Diablo III: Reaper of Souls commercial
	Pathfinder Online opens new storefront, posts first video dev blog
	Get your Hearthstone Golden Gelbin card before beta ends
	Here's 17 minutes of Heroes of the Storm gameplay
	City of Steam heads to Steam with a fresh new server
	Get ready for Diablo III's expansion with a 50 percent XP boost
	Fat Chocobo dashing out of Weight Watchers and into Final Fantasy XIV

	Defecting to WildStar's Dominion
	The hunt for creativity and checking out new EQN Landmark biomes

Tags: elder-scrolls-online, eq-next, everquest-next, guild-wars-2, rift, star-citizen, star-wars-the-old-republic, swtor, wildstar

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