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]

Global Chat: Is Destiny’s Rise of Iron any good?

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If you don't have a console but were still interested in hearing whether or not Destiny: Rise of Iron was any good, fret not:...

TERA opens the doors of its Harvest Festival Hall, teases the return of two classic dungeons

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In a game that's quite renowned for its outlandish costumes, you just know that TERA has to bring something special to the table when...

Working As Intended: A tour of 19-year-old Ultima Online

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Wanna feel old? Three years ago, I wrote a Second Wind piece for Massively-that-was on Ultima Online, which had recently been turned over to Broadsword...

Pantheon on ghost towns, hardcore raiding, and dungeon attunement

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Selected "VIP" members of the Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen forums were recently treated to a special Q&A session with the Visionary Realms devs,...

RIFT reaps the Autumn Harvest

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Mixing the best of Halloween and fall together, RIFT's Autumn Harvest is back for another spin through October. Players can return to the Realm...
Dude knows his thing.

Crowfall’s next big update is aimed at serious testers

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In this month's Crowfall Q&A video, Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Design Lead Thomas Blair give fair warning: The next round of testing is...

Turbine previews LOTRO update 19, says Mordor will come in a 2017 expansion

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Next week in Lord of the Rings Online, the banners will fly, the forces of the Enemy will quake, and the king will march....

Riders of Icarus will allow players to trade cash shop items on the AH

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Riders of Icarus' economy is about to experience a seismic change with the next update, as the game will allow for the resale of...
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Guild Wars 2 warns of incoming balance adjustments

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Will Guild Wars 2 ever attain perfect balance with all of its classes and skills? Probably not, but such is the way of all...
Are we doing the time warp?

The Daily Grind: Will Blizzard announce vanilla WoW servers at BlizzCon 2016?

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BlizzCon kicks off in just a few short weeks, and already expectations are high. Unsubstantiated Diablo 4 rumors have begun circulating, and the Nostalrius...

The Stream Team: A Black Thursday in The Secret World

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It's Thursday the 13th! It's also Black Thursday. What, you think Fridays get all the fun? Definitely not in The Secret World. Today is...
SWTOR

Massively Overthinking: The classes MMORPGs never do

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No one wants to play Uncle Owen, a certain MMORPG exec famously said -- except, you know, for all the people who really, really...
You are bold, but are you also daring?

Skyforge fires the starting pistol to the Aelion Games

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Missing your Olympic high from this past summer? Skyforge might be able to give you a taste of the sweaty competition and achievement with...

The Exiled plans wipe and patch for AI and casting modes next week

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Indie sandbox The Exiled (fka Das Tal) has a sizable patch coming on Monday. Unceremoniously dubbed Alpha 43, it will unfortunately include a wipe...

Marching Legions launches on mobile in seven countries

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Hands up if you happen to reside in Singapore. India? Lots of people in India, or so we heard. How about Germany or Australia?...

World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas replaces Tom Chilton as game director

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Blizzard is losing yet another veteran developer from the World of Warcraft team today: Tom "Kalgan" Chilton, who says he's staying on with the...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: Incompetent leaders in MMORPGs

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Leadership is difficult. You have to get a group of people to work together when they may or may not be naturally inclined to...

A Blood Moon rises over Champions Online once again

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I think it was Eliot who recently joked that Halloween in a superhero game is just gilding the lily -- everyone in a superhero...

Skyforge demos the trick-shot Outlaw class in a new trailer

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Skyforge has a new trailer and dev blog out today covering the Outlaw class, which rolled out last week for CE buyers ahead of...

Star Citizen answers questions about its $750 ship

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You'll have to forgive us, but we are still recovering from the news that Star Citizen is selling a new virtual spaceship for a...