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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EverQuest II: Kunark Ascending brings players back to familiar lands

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The EverQuest onslaught begins today with the release of EverQuest II's 13th expansion, Kunark Ascending. Players can now return to Kunark and visit previously...

Guild Wars 2’s next episode, A Crack in the Ice, drops November 21

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Guild Wars 2 has just released the first trailer for A Crack in The Ice, the third episode of the third season of living...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Five reasons to buy Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns while it’s on sale

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Ever since Guild Wars 2's first expansion released, retired players or MMO hoppers have been insisting in comments across the internet that they would only...

Trove throws community party to celebrate console’s unknown launch

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Hey everyone! Trove is coming to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 this fall! When? Um... look over there! It's a party! Stop asking questions! Indeed,...
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EVE Online is officially free-to-play today with Ascension

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"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!" That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...
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Elder Scrolls Online plans sales and free-play weekend for PC and PS4 players

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If you've been curious about The Elder Scrolls Online but didn't want to take the plunge with the box fee, good news for you,...
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Black Desert partners with Silicon Studio for tech sharing

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Could Black Desert look and perform even better than it does right now? Pearl Abyss thinks so, as the studio has signed a "memorandum of...

Marvel Heroes will personalize difficulty level in its streamlining patch

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Gazillion wasn't kidding when it said Marvel Heroes was getting the biggest systems update in its history. After learning about item updates, hero powers,...
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The Daily Grind: Are you going back to EVE Online today?

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EVE Online's Ascension expansion launches today, dropping the subscription paywall that's barricaded the game for well over a decade and further reducing the small...
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PSA: Warframe is giving out free glyphs for the next few days

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Free stuff alert! To celebrate the release of The War Within content update, Warframe is giving out free glyphs to its players. The only catch?...

Tree of Savior plans Thanksgiving events, explains trade restrictions

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Cutesy anime sandbox Tree of Savior isn't gonna be one of those MMORPGs that lets Thanksgiving slide, oh no. IMCGames says the game's Harvest...
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AdventureQuest 3D plans major November content update

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Now that AdventureQuest 3D has survived the days of testing, it can enter into the next perpetual phase of MMO development, also known as...

Neo’s Land emerges from multi-month silence to talk about mounts

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We will admit that we have been concerned about the state of Neo's Land development considering that the title has been suspiciously quiet for most...

Wargaming creates new F2P publishing branch, picks up SEGA’s Total War: ARENA

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Russian gaming giant Wargaming, best known to MMO audiences for World of Tanks, World of Warships, and World of Warplanes, announced today that it's...

Make room on your plate for Wurm Online’s cooking update

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Plenty of folks will be cooking (and eating) up a storm next week in the US, and come November 22nd, Wurm Online players can...
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EVE Online preps for tomorrow’s F2P transition, requests patience and feedback

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"We are ready to bring you clone states and Ascension tomorrow," CCP's Andie Nordgren tells EVE Online players in a dev update today on...

Shroud of the Avatar on Tolkien influences and town sieges

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Lord of the Rings fans, this week's Shroud of the Avatar newsletter is going to look mighty familiar to you: Level Designer Esteben Zaldivar...

Twilight Spirits unites the east and the west with a dose of bullet-time

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Here's a new title that came across our desk this morning and might warrant some of your attention. Twilight Spirits is an action-packed Chinese...
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Crowfall on the big world, factions, and safeguarding player cities

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In Crowfall's November Q&A "is all about Big World," Design Lead Thomas Blair declares, kicking off the episode alongside Creative Director J. Todd Coleman....
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Wisdom of Nym: At the end of the world for Final Fantasy XIV

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It's kind of weird to think about the fact that we just passed the four-year anniversary of the end of an era in Final...