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]

NCsoft rep says bringing City of Heroes toons to Master x Master was his ‘passion project’

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We've been speaking with NCsoft West off the record this week, agitating for publicly printable answers on the Master X Master decision to implement City...

Meet City of Titans’ six heroic archetypes

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Thanks to some website spring cleaning, City of Titans made a previously hidden article visible to the masses. This particular page outlines the upcoming...
Zorp? Your beam makes a sound like zorp?

Warframe counts 30M registered players on its 4th birthday, basically adds bards

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Happy fourth birthday, Warframe! It may not be a traditional MMORPG, but it's still one of those rare online MMOs that's actually doing better...

Marvel Heroes quietly dishes out compensation for December whoopsie

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This one is going to take a little explaining. Apparently, last December someone made a mistake on Gazillion's side where Marvel Heroes players ended...
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Blizzard is raising prices for World of Warcraft and Hearthstone players in the EU

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If you're playing World of Warcraft or Hearthstone overseas, know that a partial fee hike is in your future. While subs to WoW and the...
Do I look like a patient cow?

The Daily Grind: How do you channel your anger in MMOs?

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I don't get super angry in MMORPGs anymore -- if something really upsets me, there are 20 other solid games waiting for my attention....

The Stream Team: Tearing through Transylvanian terrors in The Secret World

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In The Secret World, Transylvania is very much like the monster stories. In fact, there are even more monsters! Massively OP's MJ has yet...
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Massively Overthinking: The City of Heroes Master X Master debacle

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On Tuesday, NCsoft announced that it plans to introduce Statesman, from the long-sunsetted City of Heroes, as a playable character in its MOBA, Master...

Skyforge sends you to the moon to fight in low-G

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One of the advantages of creating a sci-fi MMORPG is that there's little stopping you if you want to send your players to other...

Neverwinter breaks out Steam trading cards

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Did you have a trading card collection when you were a kid? I went along with the crowd buying baseball cards, even though I...

CCP’s live-action EVE Online ARG looks like the best thing at this year’s EVE Fanfest

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Got your tix for EVE Online's EVE Fanfest 2017? Ready to set aside your in-game enmity and play nice with your fellow gamers for...

World of Warcraft’s Patch 7.2 is coming next week

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The hour is nearly upon us and we, we are not prepared. But we are pretty eager! This afternoon, World of Warcraft announced that...
Well, here we go.

Final Fantasy XIV wraps up the Heavensward story on March 28th

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In less than a week, the first expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is coming to an end. The final story patch for Heavensward, 3.56,...

TERA sweetens its subscription package

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Just because an MMORPG is free-to-play doesn't mean that the studio really wants you to, y'know, play for free. Over the past year or...

Crowfall reflects on its ‘unrelenting series of updates’

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It's a little hard to believe, but we've now been watching Crowfall develop since late 2014, going from a teaser announcement through a successful...
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Chronicles of Elyria clarifies server and domain selection process moving forward

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The staff behind Chronicles of Elyria has been on a whirlwind tour of events, and you can read all about it in the most...

LOTRO fights the lag monster of Update 20

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It stands to reason that Lord of the Rings Online players are pretty thrilled this week to be exploring the outskirts of Mordor, but...

Elder Scrolls Online grants glimpses of Morrowind’s Vivec and Ashlands

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Ready for another super-short Elder Scrolls Online snippet? How about two? The Morrowind expanshachapter team has continued posting episodes in its travel series. Last...

Riders of Icarus increases the level cap, adds rainforest zone in Corruption of Light, now live

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Exciting things are afoot at Riders of Icarus, as the year-old MMO rolled out its Corruption of Light update with plenty of new content...

Perfect Ten: Memories of an Anarchy Online noob

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My initial foray into MMORPGs was, to put it nicely, quite ungraceful. I wasn't even aware that they were a thing until about the...