29/01/2026

A Farewell to FibroJedi's Website

If you're very old school, you may remember a SWTOR content creator called FibroJedi. About ten years ago, he was in the official content creator programme and everything! He took his name from the fact that he was suffering from fibromyalgia, a chronic health condition that mostly causes people a lot of pain for no physically apparent reason. (I had not heard about it before meeting him, a good example of how talking to different kinds of people can broaden your horizons.)

FibroJedi's website logo includes a depiction of Yoda wielding a giant spoon, a reference to spoon theory

He really opened my eyes to what life could be like if you approached SWTOR more casually, as he kind of had to do so by necessity. I used to very much be a proponent of how some challenge in MMOs makes everything more fun, but seeing his writings about the ways he sometimes struggled even with supposedly easy story content due to his disability really opened my eyes to a different perspective on that. I still think that challenge can be fun and that not everything needs to necessarily be for everyone, but his insights definitely showed me the value of having an easy story mode, especially in a game with as much focus on the narrative as SWTOR has.

Anyway, around 2020 he stepped down from the content creator programme and also more or less stopped playing SWTOR altogether because he found it too exhausting after the launch of Onslaught. He continued to create content about other MMOs though, primarily Lord of the Rings Online. Except - this week he announced that he's decided to step away from that as well (the content creation part that is) to focus on other things, and that his website will go away soon. He's arranged for this LOTRO and Final Fantasy XIV content to be moved to other platforms, but he noted that "[a]ll other content - that is to say, SWTOR and Fibromyalgia posts, will just disappear. Much of the stuff for SWTOR is out of date anyway."

That immediately made me - as someone who likes hoarding and preserving things, including digitally - go "nooo". I mean, okay, I guess some of his old guides and opinion pieces are probably outdated, but surely there were at least some posts that were still relevant. I immediately recalled his very detailed guides to the GSI daily missions for example.

So I trawled through his SWTOR content archive for a look, and was pleased to find that if nothing else, everything but a few fan fiction pieces had been captured on the Internet Archive (and I was able to capture the missing pages today). Not a place where things are necessarily obvious and easy to find, but they are still accessible if you want to look at them, even if not all the images are present and the formatting can be a bit wonky. I decided to compile a list of all of FJ's SWTOR-related posts on the Wayback Machine for easier finding in the future, after the original site goes down:

General SWTOR category:

Knights of the Eternal Throne category (if not already included in the above list):

SWTOR fan fiction:

I'm guessing you just scrolled past that huge list of links and you know what? Fair enough. I'm not going to pretend that I just re-read all of them myself today, though I did re-read some and enjoyed the nostalgia trip that came with that. I know from a usability perspective, people always want guides to be up-to-date, but from a historic perspective it can also be interesting to see what a guide on a certain topic said ten years ago. Not that long ago I found myself ruminating about how I actually remembered very little about the way endgame gearing worked back in Knights of the Fallen Empire (before KotET added the dreaded Galactic Command), and what do you know? FJ had a guide for that! His older opinion pieces were also a fond reminder of when the SWTOR blogosphere used to be a lot more lively and people were always exchanging thoughts and opinions on the latest content drops.

While this link list should be good enough for the purposes of someone specifically wanting to go back to find some of FJ's old posts, it won't make them easy to find on Google - which should be fine for the vaguely outdated stuff, but I think I might repost his GSI guides on here in full (with his permission of course), because they are still the most comprehensive content on the subject many years later. Yes, Swtorista has a page about how GSI works in general, but that won't necessarily help you when you're struggling to find Big Red on Alderaan.

Anyway, thank you, FJ, for your contributions to the SWTOR community, and for giving us a heads-up about your intentions with the website!

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8 comments :

  1. Nimgimli29 January 2026 at 16:58

    I just watched a video last night about the mental benefits of open world games, and a lot of it can apply to MMOs as well. I thought you might find it interesting. NOT my content and I have no affiliation, I just like this person's channel:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPhVMZSaoyM

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    1. Shintar30 January 2026 at 21:00

      Not a bad video! Though a bit random as a recommendation here. 🙂

      It is a good reminder though to never stop appreciating the beauty of these virtual worlds. After how long I've been playing both SWTOR and WoW, it's often easy to get caught up in the "just doing tasks" mindset.

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  2. Yeebo29 January 2026 at 21:35

    Well done. This is exactly what the internet archive was designed for. You should add this under your "potentially useful posts" off to the side.

    I hope whatever his next endeavor is goes well.

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    1. Shintar30 January 2026 at 21:14

      Good call! I've done that and will add the GSI guides too once I migrate them.

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  3. Pallais29 January 2026 at 21:44

    Thank you for doing this. It is too easy for people to slip away and be forgotten in our little MMO hobby.

    I know I would often end up on one of his GSI guides when I would google about the missions. As long as the missions themselves don't change -- and I can't see them being changed at this point -- the guides will be 'forever green'. I also agree about the usefulness of capturing how the game was. It's hard to understand why things are in their current form without being able to see where it came from and what was tried in the past.

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    1. Shintar30 January 2026 at 21:18

      I just feel forever burnt by what happened to Dulfy's site in the end. Sure, some of it was also preserved on the Internet Archive, but obviously it's hard to find things there if you don't already know the exact URL you're looking for. And I remember it took Swtorista and others pretty much years to get back to offering the same level of knowledge that was lost with Dulfy's site.

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    2. Pallais31 January 2026 at 12:29

      Initially coming to Swtor after play Wow and all the resources available there, Dulfy was an indicator of the size of the player base. Not to say Dulfy was bad -- it was quite good, but it felt small, that trying to find things wasn't as easy as I was used to.

      When you lose a site like Dulfy I think it really adds to the narrative 'X game is dying'. While people tend to focus on the game itself, I find see what support sites are available and how up to date they are is a better indicator of the long-term health of a game. The fact that Swortista and Vulkk among others have stepped up to recreate and expand what we had says a lot about the current health of Swtor.

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    3. Shintar31 January 2026 at 16:57

      Lol, I remember my early months in the game and finding that Torhead was a pale shadow of Wowhead because they couldn't automate its data-gathering and didn't feel like doing it all manually was worth the effort anymore. I still would love to have an equivalent to ""Wowhead comments" but usually you can find a thread on the forums about things like buggy quests. Overall, I agree that the game feels like it's in a pretty solid place in terms of community resources/support.

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