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]

Winning Putt expands guild offerings, welcomes summer festival

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Winning Putt is putting the emphasis on guilds (shouldn't they be associations?) with its big summer update. Guilds can now expand to 40 members...
Slashy slashy!

Vindictus Eternal promises all of the hack-and-slash action of the title on mobile devices

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Do you love Vindictus so much that the thought of having to not play it in the waiting room of a doctor's office makes...

Gloria Victis unleashes a trio of pre-alpha patches

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Early game development is often marked by frequent patching as the team feverishly works to shape and mold the title. Gloria Victis is definitely...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon closed beta opens up on Friday

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If you're still sad about Darkfall: Unholy Wars' abrupt maintenance mode or Darkfall: New Dawn's public indev soft-launch didn't do it for you, Darkfall: Rise of...

Neverwinter crits you with a wall of class balance notes

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One nice website feature that Neverwinter is doing these days is occasionally compiling all of its developer notes in the preview forums and posting...

Guild Wars 2’s Mike O’Brien on the Gaile Gray hack

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Earlier today, Redditors began circulating a forum thread filled with pictures of a character named Gaile Gray running around classic Guild Wars spouting nonsense (and worse)....

Path of Exile is plotting huge engine performance upgrades

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One of the chief gripes among Path of Exile players since even before its launch centered on its optimization and performance. If you were...

RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy is on sale before it’s been officially announced

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If all the rumors from the last month about RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion didn't convince you it's happening, how about the fact that it's...

The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Battle of Rishi

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MassivelyOP's MJ and Larry are closing in on Revan, but first they must wade into the war he orchestrated. The duo are wrapping up...

New Transformers mobile MMO vows to be ‘more than meets the eye’

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Could the Transformers MMO that you've desired for so many years be finally coming... to mobile? At ChinaJoy this past week, Hasbro announced that it...

Black Desert has selected the best community PvP trailers

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Recently, Black Desert ran a community contest to prompt players to create trailers to show off the game's various PvP features. This Warfare Trailer...

Global Chat: When MMORPG raiding becomes a job

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When does a game go from fun to obligation? Xenophics wrote a gut-wrenching confession about how raiding in World of Warcraft became his "office,"...
It shouldn't consistently work, but it does.

World of Warcraft continues the Tomb of Sargeras audio drama

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You didn't think that the first venture into the Tomb of Sargeras would be the end for World of Warcraft's audio drama prequel to...

Sea of Thieves video helps you get a handle on the game concept

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Did you read our Sea of Thieves E3 interview and come out with more questions than you had going into it? Are you still curious...

Marvel Heroes’s 59th character will be Thor’s sister Angela

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Siblings can be a pain in the tuckus or a best friend (or both!). Thor is about to find out which it is, as...
Avec les hommes et le Pokey.

Pokemon Go: Suing Nintendo, Pokemon insurance, and the Ohio Articuno controversy

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This one goes out to all the people who are still obsessively playing Pokemon Go after giving it a one-star rating. You show 'em! ...

Trinium Wars will sunset at the end of the the month

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Get your playtime in now, folks: Trinium Wars will sunset at the end of the the month. A spokesperson for InselGames confirmed to us that the...
How now brown cow.

Crowfall shows off the power design for the Myrmidon

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Crowfall's Myrmidon is the kind of fighter who attacks first, then attacks second, crushes everything to dust, and then asks questions of the smoldering...
FFXIV

The Daily Grind: What MMO would have devastated you if it had never released?

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Here on the Daily Grind we've probably asked a dozen or so times which never-released MMO would you have loved to play. So let's...
This is actually much better than I expected.

Battle Bards Episode 79: Combat music

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Ready to battle it out more than usual? The Battle Bards are cranking up the combat tunes from MMORPGs today, inviting all sorts of...