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]

Valiance Online posts two-minute gameplay video ahead of open beta

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The other day when I heard that Valiance Online was going to hold a one-week open beta event in August, I rushed to my...
Build it up.

The Daily Grind: When should MMO studios compensate players for downtime?

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Been playing Lord of the Rings Online lately? That's a little gallows humor for you, right there; logging into LOTRO has been a well-documented...

Pokemon Go Fest’s Saturday haul marked POGO’s highest one-day revenue since 2016

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No matter what you think about Pokemon Go and mobile MMOARGs in general, you gotta give Niantic some credit for managing to pivot a...

Shroud of the Avatar is working on a queue system for PvP

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If you're looking for a fight in Shroud of the Avatar, then you'll soon be able to take a number thanks to an in-development...
Girls.

DC Universe Online launches the Wonderverse episode on July 30

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Remember when DC Comics completely destroyed its multiverse only to bring it back a couple of years later, tops? We sometimes do. But it...
Creep.

Astellia Online patches out the summer event, improves rewards, and adds more cosmetic slots

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Summer has come to an end... well, over in Astellia Online. The game's newest patch removes the summer event, so you'll need to focus...
This, uh. This was a thing.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 281: A Steamy summer

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Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR and Wurm Online launching on Steam, FFXIV's 5.3 patch, Phantasy Star Online 2's New Genesis, the Fable MMO rumor, Valiance Online, and Elder Scrolls Online on Stadia, with adventures in LOTRO, SWG Legends, and WoW, plus a mailbag topic on FFXIV's unskippable dungeons.
Faires past

Final Fantasy XIV brings a shark-filled Moonfire Faire around on August 12

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On August 11th, Final Fantasy XIV players will face the end of the Shadowbringers MSQ arc that will decide the fate of a world....

Save the world in RuneScape’s Desperate Measures

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Archaeology and saving the world go hand-in-hand -- just ask Doctor Jones. RuneScape players have a chance to experience this themselves right now with...

Amazon’s New World gears up for ‘density’ stress testing this week

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It was no real surprise earlier this month when Amazon said it was delaying New World yet again, this time until 2021 - frankly,...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Gift of the Noble Guard for PS4 from PWE and MOP!

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To celebrate the arrival of Avernus for Neverwinter on console today - yes it's happening, folks! - PWE has granted Massively OP a stack...

LOTRO and DDO offer apologies and gifts for two weeks of troubles

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Two weeks ago, Lord of the Rings Online players were treated to "cascading" issues across the game servers that led to multiple days of...
Urgent, urgent, urgent!

Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to Steam on August 5

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Remember the Phantasy Star Online 2 launch fiasco with the Windows store? Of course you do. It was terrible. And it led to a...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First Impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Jormag Rising, live today

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Just two short months ago, Guild Wars 2 introduced us to the Drizzlewood Coast, flashpoint of the civil war between the Charr United Legions...

Red Dead Online ends its content drought with today’s Frontier Pursuit, the Naturalist

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Just two weeks ago, we covered the simultaneously amusing and sad story about Red Dead Online players dressing up as clowns to protest a...

Choose My Adventure: How Dungeons and Dragons Online became my new favorite MMO

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Week after week in this round of Choose My Adventure, I've been finding little things to love about Dungeons and Dragons Online and this...
Donkeys cannot use horse gear.

Black Desert’s summer server season will end early to accommodate the PC Hashashin launch

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So Black Desert has some good news and bad news this past week. And the bad news leads in to the good news, so...

WoW Classic trumpets the start of the Ahn’Qiraj war effort

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It may be strange to consider, but the 2020 opening of Ahn'Qiraj in WoW Classic may actually be a bigger deal than it was...

Elder Scrolls Online plans live tests and major Cyrodiil changes to combat performance issues

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If it seems like we've been talking about improved performance in The Elder Scrolls Online for a really long time, you're not nuts because...

The Daily Grind: Do you try to become ‘rich’ in MMORPGs?

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Let's talk about money! Pretend money in video games, that is. I've been thinking about this a bit lately since realizing that I use...

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