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]

Battle Bards Episode 124: Old MMOs, new music

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It’s a catch-all, catch-up episode for the Battle Bards as they dig through new soundtrack releases from MMORPGs that they’ve covered in the past!...
Try again

TERA launches the Phantom’s Keep update with more challenges to test your might

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The newest update for TERA encourages you to revisit old things to test yourself anew. Have you made your way through the Dreadspire before?...

Trove celebrates three years with the interplanetary Sunfest event

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If you were looking for a reason to get back into Trove to check out Geode, this week is it. Trion's voxel sandbox is...
smacks

Crowfall explains its new Vivox chat integration

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The chat system in Crowfall was developed in-house for chatting within the game, and it had only one problem insofar as it didn't actually...

Want to try Legends of Aria? We’ve got trial keys just in time for the closed beta 2 launch!

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It's a big day for indie MMORPG Legends of Aria, as its second closed beta official kicks off with a server wipe and a...
John Jacob Jinkleheimer RIFT

Choose My Adventure: Starting fresh in RIFT

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When RIFT first came out, I had very low hopes for it. The game already was launching into a crowded field, and it was...
Oh, you wanted to use these things. Huh.

Today in why we can’t have nice things: How a No Man’s Sky griefer exploits design flaws to screw with communities

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A No Man's Sky griefer purporting to roleplay an evil emperor, monologuing and all, decided to up his griefer game by taking it out of game and...

Black Desert launches a cross-regional ‘Global Lab’ test server

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So many games have test servers of one form or another that we seldom even need to spell out the acronym PTS - and...

Blade & Soul’s False Idols update includes two endgame raids

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Among the highlights of Blade & Soul's upcoming False Idols update are two raid dungeons for endgamers to explore. NCsoft's lightly previewed both in...

Interview and excerpt: The ‘Braving Britannia’ book preserves Ultima Online’s oral history

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Earlier this week, we wrote about the launch of a new book that's right up MMORPG fans' alley. Dubbed Braving Britannia: Tales of Life,...

Star Wars Galaxies book takes fans back to this late, great MMO

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Unless you're willing to venture out onto the wild space of emulated servers, you won't be getting Star Wars Galaxies back. That doesn't mean...
Look, chairs!

Identity’s town module — with player housing — is about ready to go live

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While the idea of a mere "town square" taking up the total landscape for an upcoming MMO test might seem small, that's only the...

RIFT’s progression server moves on to Ember Isle, onslaughts, and planar attunement

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It's a big step forward for RIFT's one and only progression server. Prime inhabitants can now move into the game's 1.6 Update with all of...
This seems like more of a half-move.

The Daily Grind: Which MMO would benefit from a character creator upgrade the most?

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It's a pity that World of Warcraft hasn't really updated its character creation in a long time, because the game direly needs it. The...

Pantheon rolls out the first iteration of its character creation system

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's pre-alpha test continues to progress forward, as the team just patched in the first version of the MMO's character...

Dark Age of Camelot answers player questions about damage reduction and defensive actions

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When a game has been running as long as Dark Age of Camelot has, it stands to reason that the players remaining are going...
The most powerful moves.

The Elder Scrolls Online introduces the driven huntress, Hanu

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We only get a small peek at the character of Hanu, one of the major NPCs in the upcoming Wolfhunter DLC for The Elder...
Place after place.

Crowfall talks about test patch 5.7 and the horrors of zoning

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The latest community Q&A video from Crowfall is actually not that at all. It's supposed to be that, of course, that's what it claims...

Former Guild Wars 2 developer criticizes ArenaNet boss for ‘solicitation of harassment’ and minimization of her work

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Former ArenaNet developer Jessica Price has just made a string of new statements on Twitter discussing some of the issues surrounding the ongoing Guild...
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.

Black Desert patches in a new tag system for on-the-fly character swaps

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It's always nice when your army of characters on a given MMO can be useful for you at all times, and Black Desert's latest...

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