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]

Guild Wars 2 player assembles massive season one movie

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While Guild Wars 2 is right now in the middle of its third season of the living world campaign, there's always a chance that...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon is now four months away from launch

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"We are roughly four months away from the official launch of the game." Darkfall: Rise of Agon laid out its 2017 roadmap this past weekend...

Shroud of the Avatar previews the visuals of release 38

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If there were an award for most consistent game that is sorta launched but not totally launched, Shroud of the Avatar would totally win...

RuneScape is planning three expansions in 2017

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RuneScape was nominated for our Most Underrated award this year and made it into our top 10 list of healthiest MMOs, and for good...

Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas on free-for-all PvP, races, classes, housing, and more

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Back in December, we published an exclusive dev diary about El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from a Czech studio that actually cut its teeth...

New Sims Online emulator shifts from open to closed beta following excessive player demand

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'Tis the season for emulators! Think back to 2002 MMORPG The Sims Online, what our own Justin Olivetti once called "an interesting failed experiment"...
VOID

Wisdom of Nym: Preparing for Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.5

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It occurred to me as I penned last week's column that I hadn't actually been talking about Final Fantasy XIV's next patch very much...
Home sweet home.

Carbine previews WildStar’s Primal Matrix horizontal advancement, defends ‘massive’ scope

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WildStar kicked off 2017 with a bang last week with the reveal of the Power of the Primal Matrix update, a "massive" endgame update...
Deeeeeep cut.

Star Trek Online details the creation of the Tzenkethi

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The Tzenkethi are coming to Star Trek Online, which should make any franchise lore nerd at least moderately happy. No television series has ever...

Global Chat Extra: In remembrance of Landmark

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Obviously, the reverberations of the news of Landmark's closure continue to be seen across the MMO community, including in our own comments sections. The...

Star Citizen players capture the game’s beauty in new dev video

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Thanks to the new camera controls that came in Alpha Update 2.6.0, Star Citizen players have been capturing all sorts of striking vistas from...

2001’s Battleground Europe plans Steam debut this summer

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One of the MMORPG genre's oldest running 3-D games is planning to join its comrades on Steam by this summer. Battleground Europe's team announced in...
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The Daily Grind: What’s the most intellectual MMORPG?

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We got a wonderful "deep thoughts" email from reader James earlier this week that serves as the backdrop for this morning's Daily Grind. "It could...

MMO Week in Review: Landmark’s end (January 8, 2017)

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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! This...

EVE Evolved: Five EVE video shows to watch in 2017

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Over the past several years, the way in which we receive gaming news and the types of gaming media we follow has changed pretty fundamentally. Today's...

The MOP Up: A marriage forged in hell (January 8, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
ArcheAge

ArcheAge Q&A covers fresh start servers and its future roadmap

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ArcheAge players have no shortage of questions about the game these days, particularly post-Revelation. To answer some of these, Trion Worlds took to the...

Leaderboard: Which Daybreak MMO is most vulnerable in 2017?

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In February 2015, following the SOE/Daybreak transition and ensuing mass layoffs, we polled our readers on the security of the rest of the studio's games....

One Shots: The Reaper comes for all MMOs

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In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...
They're big, you see.

The Daily Grind: Do you look forward to being ‘done’ with an MMO?

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I have a lot of reasons for taking something an extended break from Final Fantasy XI, but one of the biggest reasons is that...