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]

Neverwinter previews the Lair of the Mad Mage adventure in latest dev blog

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Many trials await adventurers in Neverwinter's upcoming Undermountain expansion, and the game's latest dev blog is all about one of the final challenges players...

Global Chat: Can you play WoW Classic casually?

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Over at Priest with a Cause, MMO blogger Shintar came up with a great question for those looking to play World of Warcraft's upcoming...

City of Heroes’ rogue servers may abandon character restoration as 14000 gamers register to play

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The City of Heroes rogue server drama continues this weekend as community work advances behind the scenes to bring the game back to life,...

One Shots: Officially Sanctioned Sunday Afternoon Nap Hour

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Shh. Shhhhhhhh. Do not, under any circumstances, make a sound during Officially Sanctioned Sunday Afternoon Nap Hour. Some of us take it very, very seriously and...
Alas and alack.

The Daily Grind: What MMO received far more effort to keep it alive than it deserved?

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It's ironic that two of the games I regard most fondly are both titles that received a huge amount of support trying to make these titles...

Make My MMO: City of Titans’ enemy mob design, Oath’s Kickstarter, and Star Citizen 3.5

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, it's been superhero insanity, and I don't even mean City of Heroes. We got updates from Ship of Heroes...

Dark Age of Camelot and EverQuest II kick off their springtime celebration events

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With spring finally in full swing and Easter just a couple of days away, Dark Age of Camelot and EverQuest II have just announced...

Star Trek Online will let you level with a T6 ship ‘very soon’

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Considering how quickly you can level up in Star Trek Online these days (thanks, duty officers!), transferring to new ships every 10 levels has...

LOTRO Legendarium: Ranking LOTRO’s festivals from worst to best

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The schedule for Lord of the Rings Online's special events keeps us hopping most of the year-round, as Standing Stone Games weaves major festivals,...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite version of your MMO’s theme music?

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Recently I've been cruising back through Aion's soundtrack and made a discovery that, in hindsight, seems obvious: There are several different main theme songs...
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Betawatch: Peria Chronicles is actually heading to beta, gosh

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This one's personally important to me. Peria Chronicles is a game that looked very interesting to me from the moment it was revealed and...

Ship of Heroes says it’s gonna have the ‘best UI in the galaxy’

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While the superhero MMO community is buzzing about City of Heroes, serious work on its legal and modern spiritual successors continues, including Ship of...
Load it up.

APB Reloaded updates players on the state of the engine upgrade, bans, and content updates

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The engine upgrade for APB Reloaded is still coming, but the most recent update on the state of the game addresses why the next...

Celebrate spring with an array of egg-filled events in ArcheAge, Trove, and other MMOs

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How do you feel about holiday events and egg-based puns? If your answer was "eggstatic," then you've come to the right post, as it's...

Guild Wars 2 is heavily overhauling some class’ elite specs in next week’s balance patch

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Guild Wars 2 fans, are you ready for your favorite thing ever: a balance patch? Because that's coming next week along with the map...

Fractured’s second Alpha 1 test brings more housing, a new biome, and spiders this June

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By all accounts, the first Alpha 1 test for Fractured was a solid success, barring minor annoyances and login issues. So now it's full...

Atlas shuts down the Empire server in favor of an NA PvE server and announces Easter plans

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Hot on the heels of update 1.5 to Atlas comes this week's Captains Log dev blog, which provides word of the Empire PvP server's...
Yes, we're here.

Twin Saga patches in the Samurai class, new zones, new quests, and new dungeons

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You forgot that Twin Saga existed, didn't you? Look into its eyes. Look at those dinner saucer-sized eyes and say that you forgot about it....

First impressions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr: Little cats fighting big lizards

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After a week like this week, you might have forgotten that Elder Scrolls Online dropped its latest chapter on the public test server. Like...

Elite Dangerous announces plans for monthly in-game events and changes to the new user experience

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Personally speaking, my own delve in to Elite: Dangerous for Choose My Adventure showed a game that definitely has more going on just beneath...

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