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]

Jukebox Heroes: Rappelz’ soundtrack

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When you cover a metric ton of MMOs and other related games professionally, it becomes an interesting task to keep them all straight in...

Old School RuneScape talks player behavior, improving PvP, and fixing old content in a Q&A

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A beefy Q&A video from the devs of Old School RuneScape offered up an opportunity to discuss a variety of matters relevant to the...

Here’s a quick glimpse of Star Wars The Old Republic’s new guild heraldry and character preview tools

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When 5.10.2: Heralds of Victory launches in Star Wars: The Old Republic next month, it'll drop some quality-of-life tweaks that were originally promised in...

EVEsterdam 2019: EVE players intercept Triglavian war plans

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The EVE Online community was surprised recently when billboards across the game were hacked and displayed a threatening video from the Triglavian Collective, a...

One Shots: Selfish selfies

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Hey! Hey man, what do you think you're doing? You're a bleeding Division agent, all right? You're the thin line that holds back anarchistic...
SWEET GUITAR RIFF

The Daily Grind: When does an in-development MMO become real to you?

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Call me a cranky old person if you wish, but a game goes from "nice idea and/or tech demo" to "actual MMO" when it's...

Make My MMO: Project Gorgon’s cash shop isn’t horsing around, Star Citizen’s playable female characters are finally here

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, beloved indie MMO Project Gorgon raised a few eyebrows this week by announcing a microtransaction cash shop that...

Legends of Aria launches its experimental server with a new death system

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One of my favorite mental images when I see the word "experiment" is some mad goblinoid scientist poking at things they have no right...

Bless Online previews the changes and additions of its upcoming balance update

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It's been about five months since the release of Bless Online, and aside from some fairly minor adjustments here and there, class balance hasn't...

Guild Wars 2 wants to bring former players back to Tyria with new initiative

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Every MMO player in existence has almost certainly, at one point or another, taken a break from a game and come back to it...
Well... whoops.

FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Travel to the First with Hrothgar and Dancers

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The third and final Final Fantasy XIV fan festival for Shadowbringers kicked off on Friday evening in by North American time schedules. We even...

EVEsterdam 2019: EVE Online explorer visits every star system without being killed

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When people say that EVE Online is a game that lets you make your own path, they aren't kidding. While CCP Games builds gameplay...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you wish you had come to years ago?

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It is really one of the more bittersweet of emotions that a gamer can feel: coming late to the party on something fantastic. On...
Are you a door or not?!

FFXIV Fan Festival Tokyo 2019: Liveblog of the opening keynote

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Here we are at long last. If you're anything like me, you've been looking forward to this event since Final Fantasy XIV first delivered...
Let's do the time warp again.

Betawatch: Guardians of Ember enters open beta again for the first time

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Hey, neat, Guardians of Ember is in open beta! Wait, didn't that already happen? Well, yes, but that was before Insel Games managed to get...

Elite: Dangerous prepares to move to new forums and announces a planetary expedition

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The community of Elite: Dangerous is going to be pretty busy in the next few days. On the one hand, there are plans for...

DC Universe Online launches Shazam movie tie-in lockboxes

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Get your transmedia synergy tag out folks because DC Universe Online is literally built on it, and this week, it's launched a big ol'...

En Masse announces TERA Reloaded on console and spring Twitch Prime promo

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Wow, so here comes TERA on a Friday with a big announcement: En Masse has announced TERA Reloaded for console, further catching Xbox One...

Netmarble reveals an English logo for Blade & Soul Revolution

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If you were passing curious about Blade & Soul Revolution, one of the two mobile games spinning off of the original PC MMORPG, then...

Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box event returns next week

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It's finally happening! Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box mode will return next week on March 28th through April 18th, bringing 8bit jumping puzzles...

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