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]

MMORPG sandbox Fractured’s Kickstarter has just fully funded at over $130,000

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Phew! A few weeks ago, I was not confident that Fractured's Kickstarter was going to make it, but it cleared its goal with just...
Beyond what, exactly?

No Man’s Sky’s concurrency is waaaaaaay up since the launch of NEXT

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Can't take the sky from No Man's Sky. It's built right into the name, see. You can take the game from Green Man Gaming...
We're the good guys this week, right? No? Well, we're going anyway.

Riot co-founder asks the Twitterverse whether it should build an MMO

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In today's installment of Was This A Joke Or Not Theater, it seems that the co-founder of Riot Games (maker of League of Legends,...

Blade & Soul’s False Idols update brings new raids, better subscription benefits

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Once the servers come back up today, Blade & Soul is going to have a lot to offer its fans thanks to the new...

Boundless dares to escape early access and launch this September with full crossplay capabilities

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How about news of an MMORPG launching here in the austere year of 2018? That's a pretty good way to pump up a day...

New World of Warcraft commercials have fun with Battle for Azeroth’s factional conflict

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With Battle for Azeroth only a few weeks away, Blizzard is pulling out all the stops to promote the latest World of Warcraft expansion....
Here we go again.

The Daily Grind: Rank the top three housing MMOs ever made

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WildStar. RIFT. EverQuest II. If I had to choose three MMORPGs that contained the best housing systems and then rank them, that list up there...
Balance that mine.

Path of Exile is plotting massive improvements to party play, including teleporting and downleveling

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It's been a hot minute since we checked in with Path of Exile, which has already had a pretty busy summer, what with the...
Art!

Occupy White Walls is heading to Steam

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Good news for cans of art curation, strange MMOs, or early access titles in general. The singularly unusual MMO Occupy White Walls is on...

Prosperous Universe will give players a say in planetary economic development

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When you usually hear about voting systems in MMORPGs, they are usually tied to some cumbersome political system that most players will never get...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.
In summary, do better.

Monster Hunter World is running a championship event this weekend

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One of the core parts of Monster Hunter World (and every title in the franchise) is that it usually doesn't matter how you take...
Let it burn.

The War of Thorns starts today in World of Warcraft

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All right, champions, time to run down our list for what we need to get done before World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is...

The Stream Team: DCUO’s The Death of Superman Finale

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It's time for the final act -- when the curtain falls for Superman. Well, technically it fell during the second half of DCUO's The...

Bless Online’s new video series discusses new staff and PvP balance after server merges

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If you hate video updates, you're probably not going to love Bless Online's new plan for reaching the community, but at least this one's...

Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds has launched after four years asleep

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Guild Wars 2 is going old school today with the return of the Festival of the Four Winds, a festival players haven't seen in...
We don't know which one to shoot.

PlanetSide 2 is testing a patch with some potential big backend bugs

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The next patch for PlanetSide 2 is up for testing now, and it doesn't have a huge list of changes... but you may want...

EverQuesting: Ranking our favorite EverQuest II expansions

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I was recently asked which EverQuest II expansion was the best. The best! I didn't know how to answer that really: I am not...

Defiance 2050 works on a new co-op map while player interest declines

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It is probably fair to say that Defiance 2050's reboot hasn't exactly shaken up the online gaming world -- or even made much of...

Former BioWare lead James Ohlen regrets not pushing SWTOR towards ‘Knights of the Old Republic Online’

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Earlier this month, BioWare's James Ohlen announced that he was retiring from the company where he'd worked for more than two decades, part of...