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]

The Stream Team: Be Black Bolt with a free Marvel Heroes code

1
Massively OP's MJ can't help it -- she just can't resist checking out the new heroes that arrive in Marvel Heroes. And this one...

Nexon invests money into IMC Games as part of Tree of Savior mobile partnership

4
Nexon has made a "strategic investment" into Korea-based IMC Games, the companies announced in a press release this morning. IMC Games is known to MMO...
Wait for it.

DC Universe Online makes Weapon Combos more potent over time

2
Weapon combos are the main source of damage for players who focus on weapons in DC Universe Online. This is not a complex or...

Shroud of the Avatar’s R39 adds town shrines, delays room renting

17
Just ahead of the weekend, Shroud of the Avatar rolled out Release 39, its latest monthly content push, and this one is pretty massive,...

AdventureQuest 3D opens Ashfall, nears 1M registered players

7
Vowing to get the new update out today "no matter what," AdventureQuest 3D's devs pushed its Ashfall patch live. This marks the game's "first...

Ride out into the frontier in Rebel Horizons’ GDC trailer

5
For those that felt titillated and intrigued by the original announcement of Rebel Horizons a year ago (if you can remember back that long),...

Funcom is ‘relaunching’ The Secret World in 2017, but it’s maintenance mode for Anarchy Online and Age of Conan

269
Funcom's fourth quarter 2016 financial report for investors landed this afternoon, and it's a doozy, especially for MMORPG players. Of most interest is the...
I just... what.

Darkfall: Rise of Agon launches on May 5

4
Remember how Darkfall: Rise of Agon's team mentioned last month that the game was roughly four months away from launch? That seemed kind of...
Maybe I can hammer it into working well?

RIFT delays Patch 4.1 until the end of March

6
Bad news for RIFT players looking forward to the release of Patch 4.1: Forged in Flames this week, as Trion Worlds announced that it...
Welcome to Sucksville, population 25,000.

Mark Kern’s Em-8er lore combines Nazis, ghosts, and terraforming

15
"Welcome to the world of Ember, or as star charts designate it, Em-8ER ('E-M-Eight-E-R')," says a new dev blog from Mark Kern's Em-8ER MMO...

TERA experiments with server rulesets, preps for new class

5
Is there anything better than waking up to the smell of a fresh producer's letter in the morning, full of all sorts of good...

Ship of Heroes demos combat ahead of April Kickstarter

8
Ship of Heroes studio Heroic Games is clearly conscious of the MMORPG playerbase's demand for gameplay videos before Kickstarter, which is likely why this...
Up.

Wisdom of Nym: The next few months for Final Fantasy XIV

7
Fellow fans of Final Fantasy XIV, I'm not going to lie to you: The next few months in the game will be rough. Not...
LISTEN

Elder Scrolls Online tours Morrowind’s capitals, addresses Cyrodiil performance

12
Were you wondering why Imperial-themed starter town Seyda Neen looks like Seyda Neen 700 years earlier in The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind expansion, before...
Sometimes it kind of works out this way.

Elite: Dangerous is adding in the Trappist-1 system… which was already almost there

9
If you care at all about space (and you should, because we're all in it), you probably heard about NASA's discovery of the Trappist-1...

Ashes of Creation demos combat gameplay and UI in new alpha video

31
Ashes of Creation sprung a brand-new alpha video on MMORPG players via PC Gamer this morning. It's not, as suggested there, the team's first...

SWTOR is adding another 100 galactic command levels to grind

24
Remember all the hoopla and hate around Star Wars: The Old Republic's galactic command experience system last fall? Remember how almost no one actually liked...
pants plz

Revelation Online welcomes early access players to the soft launch

10
It's happening, people. It's happening. After months of anticipation for the next big Asian import, Revelation Online is finally (soft) launching. Open beta starts...

The Daily Grind: How might your favorite MMO capitalize on nostalgia?

33
It would be an understatement for me to say that I'm stupidly excited to see Morrowind come to The Elder Scrolls Online this summer....

MMO Week in Review: Morrowind’s bear butts (February 26, 2017)

0
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! Elder...