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]

Happy birthday, Champions Online

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Champions Online turns seven years old today -- seven! And naturally, PWE and Cryptic have big plans for the whole month. Everything in the...

Check out Path of Exile’s Atlas of Worlds expansion patch notes and trailer

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Path of Exile's Atlas of Worlds expansion is almost here: In fact, it drops tomorrow. Earlier this month, Massively OP's MJ Guthrie spoke with...

World of Warcraft lets players experiment with classes before boosting

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Players paralyzed with indecision over which class to boost to level 100 in World of Warcraft now have a way to sort out their...

The Secret World’s Gilded Rage event inspires rage

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Right in the midst of the Doomboard Challenge, The Secret World players have another event: Gilded Rage has returned for one week. But doubling...

See how you can build your own spaceships in Dual Universe

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If you've ever watched developers slap together spaceships (and sell them to you for a few hundred actual, not-play-money dollars) and thought, "I could...

The Stream Team: Happy 8th birthday Wizard101!

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Who said you can't celebrate a birthday early? Certainly not MassivelyOP's MJ! It just stretches out the celebration and gives her more time to...

Lord of the Rings Online hints at a Shelob raid, schedules Update 19 for this fall

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Following the revelation of Lord of the Rings Online's two-and-a-half-year plan, the second part of a fansite interview turned its attention to the subject of...

Chaos Theory: Is it possible to complete The Secret World’s Doomboard challenge? Maybe

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When The Secret World’s devs teased the Doomboard, I was pretty excited. I was totally on board for getting that sweet ride even though...
Everything is not the same.

World of Warcraft previews the max-level zone of Suramar

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Four out of the five big new zones in Legion can be entered at any level and will scale up or down appropriately. But...

Elder Scrolls Online says its population is growing, explains why cross-play won’t happen

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These days, the Elder Scrolls Online team is laser-focused on the promotion and release of One Tamriel this fall. However, a recent interview with...

You can hide your costume in City of Titans

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"It's taken three years. Three years of every possible thing going wrong. Three years of trial and effort, of skill and talent, of error...
I'm sorry this is the only long-form article you're likely to get, Twin Saga.

Twin Saga enters open beta today with Dragonknights, level cap of 65

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Aeria's Twin Saga MMORPG enters open beta in the west as of today. The company says that closed beta saw 700,000 logins and 250,000...
Item by item.

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs have long-term consequences for nonsensical actions?

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On some level, I'm still amused by the fact that someone got held back in World of Warcraft: Legion as a direct result of...

Get double XP in WildStar this weekend

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Let's assume that you're not part of the crowd that is hopelessly, helplessly fixated on a certain expansion right now. You're open to different experiences...
Vacation spots!

Wizard101 looks back at its updates this year and teases the future

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The summer is just about over, as hard as that may seem to believe. Wizard101's producer, Leah Ruben, has taken the passing season to...
Okay...

Wild Terra adds blacksmithing and more metal items

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Did you dig up a whole lot of metal when Wild Terra introduced mining with no thought to what you'd do with it? We...
Bah, it was just a bird.

Pokemon Go dataminers predict buddy system

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Dataminers have uncovered a new upcoming system lurking in the code of Pokemon Go's 0.35.0 update: a buddy system. No, you won't be teaming up with...

AdventureQuest 3D gives a spooky tour of its Halloween dungeon

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According to major retail stores, we're already in the Halloween-slash-Thanksgiving-slash-Christmas shopping season, so don't be too scandalized when you hear that AdventureQuest 3D is...

Riders of Icarus has dungeons galore incoming

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Give the Riders of Icarus team credit: It seems to be very gung-ho in pumping out more content for the relatively new MMO. So...

Stronghold Kingdoms plans to let players delete their own server

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Stronghold Kingdoms developer Firefly Studios claims to be making history today by becoming "the first developer to place the fate of entire game worlds...