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]

Pixel Wars: CubeMatrix puts a full-blown voxel MMO on your mobile device

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Don't be fooled by the voxels: This isn't SkySaga, Trove, or CubeWorld, but a new title entirely called Pixel Wars: Cube Matrix. According to the...

SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne confirmed for this fall

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Move over Fallen Empire, Knights of the Eternal Throne is about to become the newest expansion on the Star Wars: The Old Republic block. BioWare...

Jukebox Heroes: MMO tunes from the 1990s

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I'll admit that I have a particular fondness for older video game music. I still scour the archives of NES and Genesis libraries for...

Crowfall devs talk about the Myrmidon minotaur and murder machines

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What's the Crowfall team up to these days? In a new Q&A video for July, the lead devs talk about the three "tracks" that the...

World of Warcraft preps Legion pre-patch for July 19, previews transmog 2.0

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World of Warcraft's Legion pre-patch is on the way as promised: on July 19th, to be exact. The patch will include the new transmogrification system...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best eyecandy?

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We can quibble about the quality and variety of content in MMORPGs, but I think most of us would agree that visually, online games...
Jazzhands are happening

Betawatch: AdventureQuest 3D steamrolls toward open beta (July 15, 2016)

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You know how some titles like to linger in ill-defined test phases forever? AdventureQuest 3D doesn't want to go that route. The game is...

Darkfall: New Dawn opens its store

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Darkfall: New Dawn isn't wasting any time setting up a revenue stream to tap players flocking to this reboot. The new web store, which...

Allods Online has six new regions in the works

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Allods Online always seems like one of those MMORPGs where there's no shortage of frontiers to explore. When Patch 7.0.1 arrives, that frontier will...

Feast your eyes upon another World of Warcraft: Legion comic book

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How are your World of Warcraft: Legion preparations coming? Everyone in the community seems to have his or her own to-do list for the expansion, and...

Star Citizen has the financial backing of 500,000 fans

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While much is made of Roberts Space Industries' work on Star Citizen, perhaps much less known is the job that Turbulent has performed. This...

Black Desert revises skill awakening and reset systems

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If you've been eagerly anticipating Black Desert's upcoming skill awakening system, you might want to take note of a few changes. Renamed skill add-on...

First impressions: Why Pokemon Go is uniquely compelling

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I, like many others who were children throughout the ‘90s and early 2000s, went through a period in my young life where the only...
Would you like to see something unsettling?

WoW Factor: Titanforged items and content relevance

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If you've missed discussion of it elsewhere (including on this here site, even), World of Warcraft is rolling out a new system for item...
Admiral Admirable!

Star Trek Online celebrates the franchise anniversary with an admiral’s uniform

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This year, Star Trek Online celebrates an important anniversary. Star Trek has been around for 50 years, and whether you first fell in love...

Giveaway: Das Tal summer alpha keys from Fairytale Distillery and MOP [Over now!]

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Indie sandbox Das Tal's summer alpha kicks off tomorrow morning on July 16th. Fairytale Distillery plans to cut the rope on the servers at...

Trion’s Scott Hartsman on Trove’s console launch, fighting lag, and whether RIFT is next

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Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that...

Elder Scrolls Online’s dye system adds a color splash for cash

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You may not care what color your armor is in MMOs as long as you're not creating a garish scene, but rest assured that...
I can't help but feel like I've been here before.

The Daily Grind: Are you a fan of underwater combat in MMORPGs?

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Earlier this week, MOP's Andrew Ross mentioned in his writeup of Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows episode that he was disappointed that...
SWTOR

Massively Overthinking: The best MMORPG trailers of all time

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This week's Massively Overthinking should be a fun one -- and hopefully it'll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which...