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]

Yes, this is harder than having a fortress.

H1Z1: Just Survive tests out quality-of-life update, conducts community survey

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Could Daybreak be making good on its promise to give some love to H1Z1: Just Survive? It certainly seems so now that there's a...
Nice shot.

Crowfall is running its biggest test to date this weekend

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The Crowfall team is not taking Thanksgiving off but is instead running its biggest to date. Doesn't that make you feel like a slacker...

PWE is running big sales for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Livelock, and more

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For those of you folks who you somehow have money still burning a whole in your pocket at noon on Black Friday, here comes one...

Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic

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While some of us are toiling away on the ground in plate armor while fighting furry monstrosities, there's a whole world of internet spaceships...
Confusion.

Project Genom assures fans it will be back on Steam soon

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If you've been following the news swirling around Project Genom, you know that the game got removed from Steam recently over a storm of...

SWTOR devs answer Knights of the Eternal Throne questions

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Star Wars: The Old Republic's next expansion is but a week away, so you best start preparing yourself for the next evolution of the MMO...

The Daily Grind: Are you a consumables hoarder in MMORPGs?

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This weekend of all weekends, it only seems right to ask you about hoarding, although I don't mean just getting stuff to have it...

Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre

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It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...
Price shark.

RIFT steps up its DDoS countermeasures

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While RIFT players have been sallying forth in Starfall Prophecy to combat the forces of Ahnket, Trion Worlds has faced a much tougher fight of...

EverChaosing: Giving thanks for The Secret World and EverQuest II

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I agonized all week over which of my favorite titles, The Secret World or EverQuest II, would get the honor of being the subject of...

The Stream Team: Taste-testing Trove’s Turkeytopia

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Massively OP's MJ loves turkey, and rumor has it she'll have more turkey than she can handle in Trove. Hopefully that includes the mount...
What can I say except ''you're welcome''

Perfect Ten: Moments to be thankful for in MMOs

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It's the holiday once again, and somehow I've wound up on Thanksgiving Day here in the US. You may not be reading this on...
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Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO peripherals junkie

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As an MMO player, you presumably already own a computer. You're also reading this post on some sort of electronic device! But you might be...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2016

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As you're gobble, gobbling up food today, rooting for your favorite football team, and enduring the uncomfortable political conversations at the dinner table, you...

Techno-turkeys invade Trove

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You gotta love Trove: The game has absolutely no reservations about being odd in the name of fun, nor hesitations that adding, say, a...
Eh, I had nothing else to do.

The Daily Grind: Do you get extra MMO time during the holidays?

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Today begins the dread stretch of time known in the United States as the holidays, a period of frenzied consumerism marked with a lot...

Programming MMORTS Screeps leaves early access

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If you cast your mind back to the wilder era of 2015, you might recall (or not) that MOP reported on an unusual MMORTS...

Three-year-old Warframe broke its concurrency record after The War Within

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GIbiz has an interview out with Digital Extremes VP of Publishing Meridith Braun today, who sheds light on how Warframe is doing. It turns...

Albion Online salutes its Faye update

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The frontiers of Albion Online have expanded to include the wilds of its new forest biome. The ancient woods have plenty of resources, but...

The Stream Team: Getting chummy with SWTOR’s SCORPIO companion

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When SWTOR companions want to chat, they don't just want to chat! Last time, Massively OP's Larry and MJ were traveling about the galaxy...