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]

Dungeon Fighter Online’s balancing patch adds new class awakenings

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Dungeon Fighter Online's western edition has been patched up heartily this week with part one of what Neople is calling New Balance. The update...

Halloween approaches for Skyforge, Neverwinter, and The Secret World

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Halloween arrives in Skyforge, Neverwinter, and The Secret World this week! In Skyforge, the Evil Pumpkin Festival begins tomorrow and lasts until November 11th. Race...

LOTRO mini-patch disables premium housing upkeep for the time being

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Following last week's release of Update 19 in Lord of the Rings Online comes the traditional "fix all the things we done broke in...

Warframe’s War Within breaks out next month

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Warframe has formally announced today that the long-awaited The War Within update will launch for PC in "mid-November." "The War Within Quest, first teased during...

The Stream Team: Death doesn’t stop SWTOR’s Emperor

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When you are really committed to your goals, why would you let a little thing like death stop you? In SWTOR, the Emperor sure...

Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters

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This past weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. It turned out that exploiters had been using...

Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box Star Wars The Old Republic gameplay

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For some reason, this time of year always seems to be a down time in the activity of large-scale MMORPG development. Although Star Wars:...
Good children.

Riders of Icarus introduces new dungeon challenges that are downright legendary

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Do the challenges of Riders of Icarus dungeons no longer delight you? Do you enter a dungeon and immediately start saying, "Dad, this is...
I have been called a hundred names and will be called a thousand more before the world grows cold and dim.

Creating Crowfall is ‘part exploration and part iteration’

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Despite what some players might assume, developers do not begin with a game design document that can and will never be changed. It's a...

Black Desert’s patch today buffs the Tamer with her awakening weapon

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Today's Black Desert update adds the Tamer's awakening weapon, a bo staff that expands the Tamer's melee abilities: "The Celestial Bo Staff allows Tamers to...
Maybe I can hammer it into working well?

RIFT teases Cleric, Warrior, and Mage legendary skills

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Hitting the new level cap in November's RIFT: Starfall Prophecy won't just give your character a few extra stat points and a nice round...
Nope, not illustrating this. Have a spaceship.

Player fakes a suicide attempt in EVE Online as part of an extortion scheme

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One of the most universal facts about most MMO communities is that we band together when one of our own is hurting or in...

Why you should never preorder a Bethsoft game again

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Don't expect to see any more detailed, in-depth reviews of upcoming Bethesda products on day one of release: The studio announced yesterday that it...

The Daily Grind: If you had to start over in MMOs, what would you do?

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Let us imagine that today, an extremely clumsy MMO employee stumbled into the server room with an armful of magnets, tripped, and somehow erased...

Dogma: Eternal Night on project funding and making NPCs come alive through dialogue

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Dogma: Eternal Night has a new dev blog out this week on something a lot of people never notice because they're too busy clicking...

Halloween breaks out in Tree of Savior, AdventureQuest 3D, and Project Genom

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You can't keep a batty holiday down! More Halloween events are popping up in MMOs as we grow closer to the 31st, starting with...
Stylish and functional.

DC Universe Online shows off the new gear of Episode 27

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Gear is important, even in DC Universe Online. Sure, the idea of collecting stat upgrades with equipment doesn't exactly mesh with the fiction, but...
BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS BEARS

Here’s how Revelation Online is compensating players for the closed beta delay

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Over the weekend, Revelation Online's western handlers announced they were delaying the start of the first closed beta from October 25th -- that'd be...
Does everything have to be artifacts these days, everywhere?

Star Trek Online rolls out Agents of Yesterday: Artifacts

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The Temporal Cold War has wrapped up in Star Trek Online... for now, anyhow. That's the thing about time travel; it never really ends,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 88: Miles per hour

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Justin and Bree discuss AQ3D, Halloween, SWTOR, LOTRO, RIFT, and the health of the MMO market, with mailbag letters on the MMO endgame paradigm and SOTA vs. Camelot Unchained.