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]

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The Daily Grind: Which MMO suffers the worst patch-day issues?

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So Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch literally broke the ability to visit players on other servers, which is sort of an inauspicious start when...

Corepunk’s second Q&A session reveals a strange take on PvP design

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The questions keep coming for fantasy-scifi MMORPG Corepunk, and the devs keep dishing answers back. For a second week in a row, Artificial Core...

TERA and PUBG publisher Krafton files for preliminary approval of its IPO in South Korea

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At the beginning of the year, we pointed out that Krafton, the games publisher that handles titles like TERA and PUBG, was getting ready...

Amazon and Leyou have canceled that unfinished Lord of the Rings MMO

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For the last few years, we've been covering a new Lord of the Rings MMO that was a collaboration between Tencent's Leyou Technologies and...

The Stream Team: Sidetracked from AdventureQuest 3D’s Sandsea story

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A new area for Massively OP's MJ to explore? You better believe she got sidetracked with that! That means there's still more to the...

Lord of the Rings Online addresses performance issues, LIs, and custom difficulty

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Lord of the Rings Online decided to put together a Q&A with the executive producer Rob “Severlin” Ciccolini this past Friday, offering up a...
Back, back, back in time.

The Daily Grind: What key advice would you give to first-timers in your MMO?

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I know that whenever I head into an MMO for the first time (or after a long absence), I always make it a priority...
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Betawatch: Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis plans a global beta for May

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For ages, Phantasy Star Online 2 was in the province of games that simply didn't exist on these shores, but now last year those...
Oh, victis.

Siege Survival: Gloria Victis gets a new trailer and developer-narrated gameplay footage

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Remember Siege Survival: Gloria Victis? Well, you should; it's the spinoff to the eponymous Gloria Victis that focuses on managing your way out of...

Star Wars Galaxies Legends finally puts a date on the City in the Clouds expansion: May the fourth

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Rogue server Star Wars Galaxies Legends has been teasing its Bespin expansion, called City in the Clouds, for literally years now. It was supposed...
Time for a few small repairs.

No, Square-Enix is not looking to be bought out

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Time to relax a little, people. A report last night had the internet in a tizzy after it suggested that Square-Enix had multiple other...

Guild Wars 2 players are having a Toga Party on April 24 to raise MS awareness and charity funds

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Time for a bit of feel-good philanthropy with Guild Wars 2 as the stage. On Saturday, April 24th, players are invited to an MS...

Swords of Legends Online’s latest class preview video features the Summoner

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Whether it's wielding the mystical power of an extremely aggressive fox friend or healing allies with the power of sparkle butterflies, the latest class...
Kerspear.

Black Desert offers a sneak peek at the Sage’s Awakening arriving to PC April 21

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If you thought the Sage class that was recently introduced to Black Desert did some damage using magical cubes, just wait until you see...

Stick and Rudder: Elite Dangerous Odyssey’s second alpha phase had more FPS goodness and even more bugs

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The whole that made up the second phase of Elite Dangerous Odyssey's alpha testing could easily be broken up into two parts: Frontline Solutions...

DC Universe Online’s freebie World of Flashpoint episode is live for all players

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After a hefty downtime yesterday, DC Universe Online pushed its latest episode, World of Flashpoint, live - for everyone - allowing even free-to-play players...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Raph Koster expounds on MMO fun, retention, and cynicism in the genre

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MMORPG developer Raph Koster has been having words about the MMO industry ahead of the reveal of the MMO that his new studio Playable...
The Doom Brigade

World of Warcraft details exactly how adjustments to drops and mechanics will work in The Burning Crusade Classic

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So, if you were wondering how exactly WoW Classic would handle the changes implemented over the course of The Burning Crusade, your questions have...

Tamriel Infinium: Previewing The Elder Scrolls Online’s Blackwood and companion system

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While fans of the Elder Scrolls series patiently await any scrap of information pertaining to TES6, players of The Elder Scrolls Online continue to...

SWG Galaxies Restoration III’s CU/NGE blend rogue server says launch is ‘imminent’

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If you follow the Star Wars Galaxies emulation community at all, you're probably waiting on a very big announcement from a certain rogue server...

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