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]

Amazon’s New World adds achievements and updated faction PvP to the alpha

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As if to reassure everyone that Amazon Game Studios really is planning on launching New World rather than canning it like everything else, the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 318: Middle-earth no more

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Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO's cancelation, LOTRO's Bilbo patch, FFXIV's 5.5, and SWG Legends' Bespin expansion, with adventures in WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, Albion Online, and Cozy Grove, plus mailbag topics on ugly duckling MMOs, reconciling immersion, and superhero MMOs.

EVE Online highlights how industrial players provide the fuel for the sandbox MMO’s wider wars

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As any player of EVE Online will tell you, waging galactic-sized wars in the game requires a lot of resources -- especially when those...
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Interview: Mortal Online 2 CEO on stress testing, persistent plans, and the MMO market

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It's not every day that I actually get an answer, let alone a number, when I ask an MMORPG developer how many people showed...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming buffs travel powers and adds tour guide missions in today’s i27p2 update

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Back in March, we covered a new patch that had just gone in testing for the test server for City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue...

Choose My Adventure: Further group adventures (that weren’t IAs) in RIFT

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Once again, the polls from last week were a split between people saying I should queue for normal dungeons and others saying I should...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Possible futures for Guild Wars 2’s strikes and dragon response missions

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Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga gave us a new type of endgame group content starting with its prologue chapter: Strike Missions. Each episode introduced...

Swords of Legends Online opens preorders with minimum $39.99 buy-in for closed beta

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If you've somehow missed the deluge of class reveal trailers from Swords of Legends Online the last two weeks - or you can't be...

Casually Classic: Four alternative day one strategies for WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade

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OK, real talk time, people. Is there anyone out there that, knowing the zone design of Burning Crusade and Blizzard's track record with launches,...
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Guild Wars 2 Judgment episode is unleashed April 27 – here’s the new trailer

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Back in March, ArenaNet hinting that the fourth and final episode of Guild Wars 2's Icebrood Saga would roll out in late April, and...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Playable Worlds’ MMO will leverage cloud gaming to simulate a world and be playable on multiple devices

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Over the past few weeks, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster has been kicking out lots of blog posts about what his studio's game is aiming...

WoW Classic lets you store world buffs for later, pushes Burning Crusade beta forward

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A late-cycle patch for WoW Classic hit the servers today with a couple of significant changes to how buffs work in the game. First...

The Daily Grind: How do you occupy yourself when your MMO is offline all day?

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As promised, Daybreak's entire suite of MMORPGs is offline for 24 hours today, which means DCUO, EverQuest, and PlanetSide 2 fans are going to...
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Wurm Online previews its upcoming animal update with donkeys

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Tired of plodding around in Wurm Online on a cow? Then we've got good news for you because here come donkeys. Yes, with the...
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Aion EU opens Pangaea, adds the Labyrinth, and reworks Legion contribution in Update 7.9

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If it feels like you've seen this headline before it's because you kind of have, except this time around the previously announced update to...

MapleStory is opening the luxurious Hotel Maple to celebrate its 16th anniversary

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No, unfortunately for fans of MapleStory, the Hotel Maple is not going to be a thing in meatspace. What it is going to be...

ArcheAge developer XL Games announces mobile sandbox MMO Moonlight Sculptor

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Developer XL Games, which readers will know are the folks behind ArcheAge, and publisher Kakao Games are set to unleash a new mobile sandbox...

Kickstarted VR MMORPG Ilysia is finally nearing alpha

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Last fall, we covered the successful Kickstarter of VR MMORPG Ilysia, which pulled in over $150,000 to become the second-biggest Kickstarted MMO of 2020...

Fight or Kite: My mobile MMO experience peaked in 2008 with Parallel Kingdom

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It's a distant memory now, but in 2008 I played a mobile MMO that completely and totally had me hooked. I remember sitting on...

Albion Online buffs matchmaking, loot, and accessibility for its new hellgates

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It's patch day for Albion Online, and if you were one of the players fussed over the state of the hellgates introduced in the...

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