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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WoW Factor: Sargeras, the Legion, and World of Warcraft lore on the cosmic scale

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Patch 7.1 is just around the corner for World of Warcraft, and it makes me just a little bit anxious. Why? Because the expansion...
Dinosnores.

ARK: Survival Evolved introduces procedurally generated maps

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Studio Wildcard is touting a big update to ARK: Survival Evolved this week that ought to come with a trigger warning for people who...

Revelation Online’s Gunslinger has a wicked arsenal and then some

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Here's a few words of wisdom if you happen to venture into Revelation Online later this year: Make friends, not enemies, with a Gunslinger....
No one weekend should have all that power.

The video game voice actor strike is on

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The strike that U.S. screen actors guild SAG-AFTRA was threatening against video game studios will be going forward as planned, with the strike starting just after...

TERA talks up two brand-new dungeons for next week’s update

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We have to imagine that if you're a TERA player, you are quite giddy with the prospect of the game's Spellbound update hitting the...
Light it up.

Star Wars: the Old Republic previews the mechanics of Dark vs. Light

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The light side and the dark side of the Force are kind of an entire thing in any Star Wars media, especially Star Wars:...

Blizzard releases free voice chat functionality for Battle.net

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The Battle.net launcher -- while we're still calling it Battle.net -- now has a new way for friends to pester and poke each other....

Guild Wars 2 heard you liked Halloween farming, so…

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Last night, ArenaNet end boss Mike O'Brien gave the Guild Wars 2 farming meta one step forward and one step back by announcing the team...

RIFT: Starfall Prophecy aims for a November 16 launch

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Now that Starfall Prophecy's open beta is underway, Trion Worlds seems comfortable with setting a launch date for RIFT's third expansion. The studio revealed...
Revival

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been propositioned in an MMO for loot?

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Get your grimaces and side-eyes on: Kotaku put a piece out last week about "sugar daddies" in MMOs, proving once again that this genre is...

The Stream Team: Sabotage racing CM Odonoptera in The Secret World

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Massively OP's MJ is in the middle of trying to get The Unseen achievement by successfully completing The Secret World's sabotage missions. But what...
Losing in a way that's incidentally the same as not in fact losing at all.

Massively Overthinking: Real solutions to the MMO toxicity problem

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Toxicity. It's plagued online spaces since long before there were MMORPGs and other online video games, as any old school BBS user can attest....
It's a boat, I suppose, I don't know if it's actually any different.

World of Warships ships out a new batch of British boats

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The British are coming! Their ships are, at least, in World of Warships. The game's most recent update adds in ten British warships, ranging...

Mu Legend gives a glimpse into its action combat gameplay

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The online action-RPG sequel to Mu Online, Mu Legend, is heading into its first beta test next week on October 25th. No doubt you've...

NCsoft begins hyping Lineage Red Knights with Seoul event

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NCsoft has finally begun turning on the hype machine for Lineage Red Knights with an English-language website meant for Southeast Asia. Announced last year...
Also, this stuff.

World of Warcraft throws even more Suramar content at you in 7.1

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Just when you think you might see the light at the end of Suramar's long, long content tunnel, a team of Blizzard corps of...
Space fleas, not from nowhere.

Star Trek Online previews its next featured episode, Echoes of Light

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You can try to hide from the rest of the galaxy in Star Trek Online, but even though the galaxy is a very large...

The Stream Team: AQ3D’s beta doors open wide and Artix is here to greet you

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It is finally here! AdventureQuest 3D has moved into open beta, which means the doors are open for everyone to jump in and check...
Sometimes it kind of works out this way.

NASA worker praises Elite: Dangerous for its attention to detail

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No human being has ever flown to Saturn. The logistics of a manned mission out that far into space are just not realistic at...

EverQuesting: EverQuest II’s public quest event — fun or flop?

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Last year when EverQuest II had a prelude event before the launch of its expansion, it was a two-parter. And thanks to logistics at...