MMORPG

MMORPGs are massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, our core focus here on Massively OP. MMORPGs are traditionally differentiated from mere multiplayer games by their persistent worlds, massive playerbases and/or servers, customizable character development, and always-online status. [Follow the MMORPG category’s RSS feed]

Swords of Legends Online previews the Sparkwood Gardens raid launching later this month

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The Swords of Legends Online community has been hungry for more endgame content, and later this month, that's exactly what it's getting. This morning,...
Trab?

Lineage 2M is launching on December 2 in North America and Europe

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Those of you who were lamenting that there might be some small portion of your gaming day spent not playing some version of Lineage II will...

Elyon takes down its Halloween decorations and brings up a leaderboard event

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It's always a little sad when Halloween decorations are taken down, but it's also understandable since we're moving through the month of November. To...
Oh look,

World of Warcraft will be revealing the next Shadowlands content update tomorrow

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Playing World of Warcraft at the moment has involved a whole lot of staring at the sky and waiting for rain, metaphorically speaking. So it's...

The Stream Team: One last look at the Lost Ark closed beta

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There's not much time left before the beta test of Lost Ark wraps up, which means that MOP's Chris has a scant bit of...

Albion Online examines Lands Awakened’s guild PvP, opens influencer program

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Albion Online's Lands Awakened update is obviously going to bring some big changes to the PvP meta when it launches on November 24th -...

Perfect Ten: How MMOs explain away our infinite resurrections

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Why? Why do we die in MMOs and keep coming back to life? Are we in a type of hell defined by endless combat...
Faces and offs.

World of Warcraft: Classic is planning to allow free character transfers off low-population servers

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The direction of free server transfers can tell you a lot about what's coming next for a game's servers. If WoW Classic were offering players...

SWTOR’s character creation screen gets a makeover for Legacy of the Sith

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All those Star Wars: The Old Republic players who will be flocking to make new characters with the flexible combat styles system next month...

Lord of the Rings Online launches its eighth expansion, Fate of Gundabad

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Who's ready to get funky with Dwarves underground and Brawlers over the landscape? Lord of the Rings Online players, that's who. Today marks the...

Guild Wars 2 teases End of Dragons’ Echovald Wilds biome

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One of the best-loved locations in Classic Guild Wars was Echovald Forest, the overgrown, gothic home of the Kurzick faction. Just based on concept art...

New World’s test server opens today with void gauntlet, new quests, and trading post unification

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It's another big day for New World: Amazon is opening up a public test realm to let players test out its coming content update. The...

The Daily Grind: What do you think of Lost Ark so far?

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The buzz on the MMO streets is all about an Amazon Game Studios release -- no, not New World, but rather Lost Ark. The...

Villagers and Heroes looks at a level cap increase and home decoration

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This past year, we've been a little concerned about Villagers and Heroes. The cross-platform MMO, which boasts a lot of fun features, has gone...

Daybreak’s Jack Emmert is geeking out over DC Universe Online’s December Legion of Doom

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Jack Emmert, CEO of Daybreak sub-studio Dimensional Ink, is geeking out over DC Universe Online's upcoming Legion of Doom episode in December. His excitement...

Blade and Soul breaks down the Demonsbane system arriving with tomorrow’s update

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Tomorrow, NCSoft is adding some new content to Blade and Soul, including the Aerodrome dungeon, the centerpiece of the game's Demonsbane system that promises...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 346: Endwalker, ArcheAge, Lost Ark, and New World

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Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV's Endwalker delay, WoW's financials and player council, ArcheAge's new publisher, Gamigo's new MMORPG, Lost Ark's beta, New World's state, DDO update 51, Elder Scrolls Online's Deadlands, Harry Potter Wizard Unite's sunset, and Crowfall's freemium update, with adventures in LOTRO, Fallen Earth, City of Heroes, and Star Wars Galaxies, plus a mailbag topic on worry about the future of the genre.
Zorp? Phasers don't go zorp.

Star Trek Online patches in a new warship event as Reflections is live for console players

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Who doesn't like a free warship? It is suspected that Star Trek Online console players like free warships. Presumably non-console players also like free warships,...
BURNS

Neverwinter comes under siege starting on November 11

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So... hey, Neverwinter players, quick round of questions. Who exactly was it that told the Cult of the Dragon that they needed to siege...

Wakfu’s next big update features a level cap increase and five new adventure islands

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It's not every day when the bizarrest MMORPG in town gets a preview for a major update, but that day arrived this week as...

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