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]

Pagan Online is sunsetting its multiplayer servers, but the singleplayer campaign will live on

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The 2020 downsizing of MMOs and multiplayer titles into singleplayer ones continues today with the announcement that Pagan Online will shift to a solo-only...
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World of Warcraft has its first trans character in the Shadowlands alpha and prepares the Darkmoon Faire on live

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The first canonical trans character in World of Warcraft is here in Shadowlands: Pelagos, an aspirant among the Kyrians whose mortal form was that...

The Stream Team: Doing Star Trek Online’s A House Divided

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The first major update of Star Trek Online's Year of Klingon is A House Divided, a new civil war story arc. Massively OP's MJ...

Dual Universe is finally entering beta in August – with a subscription model

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Long-running MMORPG fansite Gamespot (/s) has just posted the not-so-exclusive-now news that sci-fi MMO Dual Universe is expected to hit beta on August 27th. MMO...

Guild Wars 2’s latest balancing patch is live as ArenaNet offers summer roadmap

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Happy patch day, Guild Wars 2 fans. As we noted last week, Guild Wars 2's latest class balancing update is live today, and now it's...

Choose My Adventure: Dungeons and Dragons Online already does so much right

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Well, well, well. Consider me pleasantly surprised. I wasn’t really sure what to expect when the voters told me to kick off my Dungeons...

Flameseeker Chronicles: How Guild Wars 2 keeps meta maps relevant

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Lately I’ve been spending a lot of my time in Guild Wars 2 running through the Drizzlewood Coast meta event (be sure to check...

Chronicles of Elyria backers have now hired a lawyer to file a class action suit

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Chronicles of Elyria may not be a game right now, but you can bet your sweet bippy that it's a saga. A legal saga,...
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The Daily Grind: Have you ever visited a memorial in an MMO?

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I was strolling around the PvP areas on Dathomir on SWG Legends the other day and a stumbled into a building that was clearly...

The Stream Team: A non-PvPer’s guide to Elder Scrolls Online’s PvP event (plus antiquities!)

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Yes, Massively OP's MJ has been distracted from ESO's main story quest in Greymoor... and that's not going to change any tonight! Right now...

Massively Uplifting: Speech therapy, a college class in WoW, and the Ian Holm tribute that crashed LOTRO

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Inside or outside? Like a cat at the door, June had many of us unsure if we wanted to go out or stay in;...

Korean casual mobile game dev Game Tales plans on creating a large-scale PC and a mobile MMORPG using UE5

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As the promise of Unreal Engine 5's capabilities start to sink in, our little part of the gaming world is seeing perhaps the first...
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The Repopulation promises new skills, system revamps, and more in its latest roadmap

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A lot of the progress made in development of The Repopulation is pretty granular: bug fixes here, some greybox builds replaced there, things of...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen discusses community management in a livestream

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June's usual developer roundtable livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is a little bit different than usual: it's a solo discussion with community...

MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Deadside, The Isle, Minions of Elden, Dekaron M, Ragnarok Origin, TitanReach

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Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you've (probably) never heard of! We'll start with Deadside, which is definitely in the...
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RuneScape improves its chat filtering, OSRS adds more Poll 71 features and tweaks death mechanics

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Surprise, surprise, some players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have been presumably trying to circumvent the hard-locked chat terms meant to discourage hateful...
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Quantic Foundry surveys say gamers are seeking more relaxing and less intense gaming experiences during COVID-19

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How has the novel coronavirus pandemic altered the types of games people play, if at all? According to some new survey results from Quantic...

Enter to win a Neverwinter Gift of the Twisted Noble for PC courtesy of PWE and MOP!

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With the launch of Neverwinter's Avernus campaign on PC players last week, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP 50 Gift of the Twisted Noble...
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Mortal Online 2 posts its roadmap for the next two months, plans to sell a $2500 package

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If you're super invested in the kind of open world PvP game that Mortal Online 2 is building, then the devs at Star Vault...
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World of Warcraft: Shadowlands datamining reveals more alpha details, including more Soulbinds

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The testing for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands continues, and with a new update that means new datamining of important details. The most recent update...

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