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]

Secret World Legends mission inventory and new Tokyo content coming next week

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Funcom isn't finished with its Tokyo vacation just yet. The studio still has a lot of content from Kaidan to reincorporate into Secret World...

Warframe’s Plains of Eidolon introduces ‘open landscapes’ later this year

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During its livestream earlier this afternoon, Digital Extremes formally unveiled Plains of Eidolon, Warframe's next big expansion. As announced back at TennoCon, the expansion will...

EverQuest’s Phinigel progression server moves forward

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Thirteen years after initially launching to EverQuest's playerbase, the Omens of War expansion is getting another opportunity for a big splash. Yesterday, EverQuest's Phinigel progression...

World of Warcraft kicks off its Mythic Dungeon Invitational

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Not all e-sports tournaments have to do with players beating on each other's faces, although to be fair, that seems like a vast majority...

Check out Warframe’s MMO-ish Plains of Eidolon expansion reveal right now

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Back in July, Massively OP's MJ Guthrie reported from TennoCon that Warframe is gearing up for a massive renovation dubbed Plains of Eidolon, an expansion...

Shroud of the Avatar reveals a batch of investment rewards for the one percenters

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People, steel yourself for an entire article about gold-themed housing decorations that won't involve a single Trump joke. It's going to be hard, but...

Guild Wars 2 begins its final countdown to Path of Fire’s launch

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With the launch of Path of Fire just a week away now, the Guild Wars 2 team has outlined its plans for the next...

Massively Overthinking: What keeps you from playing mobile MMOs?

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Earlier this week, we wrote about Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' IPO and its grand plans for the future - among them, four additional...

Star Citizen’s alpha 3.0 inches closer to testers, CIG touts its mission system

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In this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, Cloud Imperium says it's reduced its must-fix issues by 50 over the last week,...

PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma

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What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...
I'm sure it's fine.

Elite: Dangerous brings the Thargoids with patch 2.4 on September 26

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There are dangerous things in deep space when you play Elite: Dangerous. More dangerous than system failures, or pirates, or interstellar phenomena. The Thargoids...

Wild West Online’s first closed alpha has officially begun

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"Open-world action-based, online multiplayer" game - somewhere between a survival sandbox and an MMO - Wild West Online officially hits closed alpha today, or...

Guild Wars 2 DPS meter creator adds build templates to popular arcdps mod

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If you have min-maxer friends in Guild Wars 2 as I do, you probably already know about arcdps, a player-designed mod that originally merely...

The Daily Grind: Are MMO lockboxes actually even worse than gambling?

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MMO blogger Ethan "Isarii" Macfie made an interesting point in one of his recent Critical Writ videos that I think deserves some amplification and...
Oh, who's a cutie.

Revelation Online adds in a new level cap and new bosses in the Uprising update

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It's time to get better than you ever thought possible in the latest Revelation Online patch. Heck, better than it was possible to get,...

Neocron celebrates 15th anniversary with secrets and free transfers

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Happy birthday Neocron! The mature sci-fi MMORPG turns 15 years old this month, having survived rebirths, transitions, and a decidedly niche status during its...

Dark and Light’s Goblin engineering will make you into a bully

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Have you seen Dark and Light's Goblins? They're hands-down the most adorable gobbos ever made for an online game. So much so, in fact,...
Like this style.

Final Fantasy XIV prepares for Shirogane housing while halting house demolitions

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Looking forward to picking up a house in Final Fantasy XIV's Shirogane housing district? The houses are planned to open up with the release...

The Stream Team: Taking on the Blue Mountain bear in Secret World Legends

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PAX West delayed the exodus of Massively OP's MJ from Blue Mountain in Secret World Legends. There's also a matter of an undead bear...
All right, that's... this is super, you guys are doing super, sure.

Korean mobile MMO Royal Blood kicks off its closed beta on September 25

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What is the new mobile MMO Royal Blood all about? We honestly can't tell you, unless the entire game is about fighting a bunch...

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