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]

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Revelation Online offers players bonus currency for buying currency now

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The third closed beta for Revelation Online is running, and you can test out the game's cash shop right now if you're in the...

Stitch together your own playable bodies in Crowfall

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Do you have any qualms about playing with dead things in video games? How about playing a dead thing itself? Crowfall will offer both...

Star Citizen fends off pirates (the fun kind)

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One thing that's for certain in the future of interstellar expansion, and that is the assurance that plucky pirates will take their Jolly Rogers...
EAT.

South Korea is airing a World of Warcraft cooking show

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Remember that World of Warcraft cookbook? It's heading to the next level. South Korean television will soon feature an entire cooking show based on...

Massively OP Interview: Standing Stone on LOTRO, DDO, and Daybreak

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It's been quite a month since Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online announced that they were breaking off from Turbine as part...
SWTOR

The Daily Grind: Is in-game advertising the MMO genre’s post-lockbox future?

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Massively OP reader Sally Bowls pointed us to a fun piece on Frankengadget this week about Final Fantasy XV and its overt product placement....

The Stream Team: Marveling at Marvel Heroes’ mega 2017 update

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Marvel Heroes mega 2017 update is now live, and Massively OP's MJ is diving in to marvel at all the changes. Just how exactly...
So, fine.

Massively Overthinking: The future of a global MMORPG industry

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Massively OP Patron Duane's done the math on what is becoming, more and more, a truly global MMORPG industry. His question for Overthinking this...

EVE Online starts the process of electing its next player council

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When the winter is coldest on the coast of Iceland, CCP lugs out its 20-foot wooden alpine horn and blows a signal that can...

Albion Online previews Royal Continent layout

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Say goodbye to Albion Online's Royal Isles -- and hello to the all-new Royal Continent! In its upcoming Galahad release, Albion Online is wiping out...
If you overlook the many ways it's an awful plan, it's a fine plan.

World of Warcraft turns its attention to Patch 7.2

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Now that the excitement over the launch of Patch 7.1.5 and Nighthold has died down somewhat, World of Warcraft's team is gearing up for...

The Stream Team: Happy birthday Blade & Soul!

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Massively OP's MJ hasn't been in Blade & Soul in quite a while, so what better time to bounce back in than on its...

Dungeons and Dragons Online starts testing Update 34’s Tower of Frost

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The first big content update for Dungeons and Dragons Online is being put through its paces on the test server right now, which means...

Marvel Heroes: ‘Biggest update ever’ is underway this afternoon

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Right as this post is going live, Marvel Heroes is going dark... at least for the next four hours, that is. The game will be...
There are indeed feelings I get when I look to the west.

Choose My Adventure: The most depressing road trip in Lord of the Rings Online

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You know, if my first exposure to Elves had been in Lord of the Rings Online, I would probably think that they were the...

Revelation Online’s third closed beta has begun

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As promised, the third round of Revelation Online's closed beta begins in the west today. "The third phase of testing will last until February 2 and...
So there won't be any of this.

Wizards of the Coast forms new digital games studio led by Jeffrey Steefel

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Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons might be getting an online upgrade in the near future. In a letter written this week to the...

Mark Kern’s Em-8ER posts a new THMPR modeling video

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Em-8ER, the Mark Kern-led "massive planetary wargame" shooter formerly known as (and still pronounced like) Ember, has a new video out today showing off...
My life is not fun.

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most unclear futures in 2017

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A little while back, I took a look at the healthiest games in the MMO space at this time. That was a nice, uplifting...

Blizzard defeats Bossland bot-maker in German supreme court ruling

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Score one for Blizzard: The gaming giant managed a win in its long struggle against German bot-maker and plague-on-honest-gaming Bossland GmbH. The German Federal Court...