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]

Massively Overthinking: Does the MMO genre have too many games for its own good?

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Last month I saw a video from YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes with an eyebrow-raiser of a thesis: He essentially argues that we have too...

Star Trek Online brings back Operation Riposte, the Crystalline Entity, and lets you earn a free T6 ship

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Whether you like firing your lasers at a malevolent crystal snowflake or liberating a planet from Klingon oppressors, the most recent patch to Star...

Bless Online’s Japanese server is sunsetting in August

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It looks like yet another version of Bless Online is calling it quits, as the Japanese server admins announced yesterday it'll close down that...

Hyperspace Beacon: Thoughts on SWTOR’s Dantooine Incursion update

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Tuesday, Star Wars: The Old Republic released a new event update called the Dantooine Incursion. I played through the questlines on the PTS, then...

The Stream Team: Double your dose of adorable with MapleStory 2’s expansion

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When a cynical world bites, what can you do? You get an antidote! Massively OP's Chris and MJ are looking for a double dose...
Beta fish.

Interview: Astellia’s westernization covers everything from monetization and VO to dodging and grouping

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It seems as if every time we write about incoming MMORPG Astellia, confusion over its guiding principles dominates the ensuing discussion. One of those...

Elite Dangerous greyhat ‘protest’ over hacking ends in player ban

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You wouldn't think Elite Dangerous would be the site of so much drama, but it's offering up the goods this week. Yesterday, one of...

Massively on the Go: Exploring Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge augmented reality game

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I wasn't expecting to be very excited about the new Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge until I read there'd be an augmented reality game mixed in....
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Blade & Soul previews the item changes arriving with its next major patch

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When the next major Blade & Soul patch arrives on June 19th, Skyforge and Shadowforge weapons are getting cheaper to upgrade, so players getting ready...

Star Wars: The Old Republic holds an AMA about gear progression changes coming in Onslaught

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As we all know by now, Star Wars: The Old Republic is getting something of a reset with regard to its gear progression systems...

Destiny 2 is going free-to-play as Destiny 2: New Light as Bungie confirms Steam launch and cross-save

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(This article has been updated since publication; updates are at the end, and the original is as follows.) In what at least appears to be...

Blizzard cans another secret game after two years of development, this one a StarCraft shooter

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Add another game to Blizzard's development graveyard. According to Gamespot, the World of Warcraft studio decided to cancel an unannounced game project that has been...
Robots.

The Daily Grind: What serves as your biggest MMO currency sink?

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I don't really devote a lot of effort in Final Fantasy XIV into making money, but I also sort of don't need to. The game's biggest...

The Stream Team: Watch and win a copy of Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr

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Have you been to Elsweyr in The Elder Scrolls Online? If not, now is your chance! Massively OP's MJ is continuing her adventures solving...

A gloriously odd paintball MMO from the 1990s has returned

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Do you ever find yourself looking at modern MMOs in disgust, finding their graphics to be too garish and ostentatious? Do you pine for...

Outlaws of the Old West brings a taxidermist and a slew of bug fixes

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Varmints. Critters. Animals. They're going to cross your path and run in to your bullets out there in the survival MMO wilds of Outlaws...

Indie MMO ‘spaceship design game’ Exocraft ports from PC to mobile today

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Exocraft caught my eye earlier this year chiefly because I cannot stay away from these retro games with colorways that just glow right off...

Runes of Magic sings you a song of a music festival

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Returning to a former MMO may be like picking up an old song and learning the notes all over again. Maybe you haven't set...

Watch Elder Scrolls Online’s E3 presentation, get a free mount

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Bethsoft's and ZeniMax's E3 presentation last year really blew away our staff and readers - I can't remember the last time a studio really...

Classic MapleStory’s new Pathfinder class is officially launching June 26

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Classic MapleStory knows that you secretly want to be Legolas but cool, and it's giving your heart what it desires most: the Pathfinder class....

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