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]

Lord of the Rings Online readies its next progression server unlock

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For the past couple of months, Standing Stone Games hasn't spoken much on the status and future of Lord of the Rings Online's progression...
And all of the art design is still done on lined notebook paper.

EverQuest II announces anniversary events and new ‘old-school PvP’ event server

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Venerable poster child of the MMO genre EverQuest is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and it just recently announced a cavalcade of events...

LOTRO Legendarium: Five lessons I’ve learned from replaying Shadows of Angmar

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Over the past three months, I've been exclusively playing on the Anor progression server in Lord of the Rings Online. During that time, I've...
Roguish.

The Daily Grind: Do you find it hard to connect with pre-established MMO characters?

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One of the hallmarks of MMORPGs is the freedom for players to create the kind of character that they want, from race to looks...
WE... STILL... FUNCTION (maybe)

Betawatch: Project Genom is remaking itself

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The state of play for Project Genom appears to be a tear-down and rebuild. After a long period of silence the game announced that it...
It's a tiny little sprout thing. It might kill you.

Final Fantasy XI rolls out the Spring Alter Ego Expo on February 1

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If you think about it a little, the trusts in Final Fantasy XI are a bit like the eponymous pokemon. They fight alongside you and...

NetEase joins Tencent in move for ‘anti-addiction’ curfews on Chinese mobile gamers

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NetEase has once again become a household name for gamers thanks to its partnership with Blizzard on Diablo Immortal and many other titles, but...

Extra Credits tackles why we buy into early access games even when we shouldn’t

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If you missed our podcast's epic rant about the problems of early access this week, then strap in because the folks at Extra Credits...

RuneScape dev Jagex is up for sale by its struggling Chinese owners after posting record high year

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Remember a couple of years back when RuneScape company Jagex was bought out by China's Shandong Hongda, a company known primarily for its iron...
Kerbang.

Red Dead Online fixes its battle royale matchmaking, hands out gold bars

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We all know from history class that the wild west was won via a series of 32-player battle royale matches that happened across the...

EA rushes to add more server capacity for Anthem’s overloaded VIP demo

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Anthem's VIP demo is live today, and everything is just fine! Well, maybe not. BioWare maybe doesn't have quite enough servers for the massive...
Here comes trouble.

Wisdom of Nym: Analyzing and overthinking Final Fantasy XIV’s 4.5 revelations

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I wonder if we're actually going to find out our destination for the next expansion in February. Remember, we still don't actually know where...

Star Citizen’s Around the Verse covers intuitive flight controls and landscaping desolate moons

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Cloud Imperium's Sean Tracy and Steve Bender headline this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, and if you didn't expect clowning, then...
Meeeeeeerp

Crowfall tries out its updated scoring system in a new round of campaigns

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A new round of test campaigns has started in the world of Crowfall, and this time around, the game has been updated with the...
Dead in the water.

World of Warcraft’s latest Q&A covers the global cooldown and item level changes

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Pretty much no one has really been made happy by World of Warcraft putting most major cooldowns on the global cooldown, one of the many...
Yikes what

PWE is investigating why Star Trek Online and Neverwinter are accidentally blocking Windows Server users

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How would you feel if the next time you went to log into your favorite MMO, the launcher went "Yeah, but no" and denied...

The Daily Grind: Do you approach all MMOs with PvP as ‘PvP games’?

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I saw a thought-provoking exchange on Reddit this week that's too good to sit on. It was in a thread for an MMORPG in...

The Stream Team: Sentient sentinels and other City of the Sun God sirens in Secret World Legends

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It turns out that there are more missions from the sentient statues in City of the Sun God that weren't a part of Secret...
They're not attractive spaceships.

Massively Overthinking: Why aren’t you playing the MMO most like your favorite sunsetted game?

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This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from reader Smuggler-in-a-YT. "Star Wars Galaxies had its problems, but the sense of community, purpose, and story (through...

Old School RuneScape outlines proposed Chambers of Xeric adjustments

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In the wake of last week's huge Old School RuneScape update, which added the all-new Kebos Lowlands region to the game, Jagex is now...

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