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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The Daily Grind: Should MMO studios be involved in modding their games’ subreddits?

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Reddit is a complicated place with more than its fair share of drama, and that drama spills over into the gaming space from time...

The Stream Team: Lost in The Secret World’s labyrinth

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Although MassivelyOP's MJ thought for sure she could finish The Secret World's Issue #14 last week, when she finally got through the maze of the...

Massively Overthinking: The sandbox MMORPG disconnect

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This week's Massively Overthinking was inspired by a reader who decided to go by Sandboxless in Seattle when he penned this note of frustration to us. I...
Everything the light touches is probably not a secret wolf.

Saga of Lucimia stares deeper into the darkness in a new video

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Darkness. As you may have noticed from being alive, it makes it really hard to see things. This is due to the fact that...

Watch City of Heroes fans celebrate its birthday

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If you haven't picked up on the fact, there's a lot of us that continue to care deeply about City of Heroes, even years...

PSA: Your last day to grab a Tree of Savior founder DLC pack is approaching

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If you were still hoping to pick up some founder DLC for Tree of Savior before the launch, heads up: IMCGames has announced that...

ARK introduces King Kong’s cousin, tribe ranks

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As if the water weren't dangerous enough after the last major patch, ARK: Survival Evolved has just added new ways to die new dinos...
Are we doing the time warp?

Activision-Blizzard Q1 2016: Activision-Blizzard posts results ahead of WoW Legion, Overwatch

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Activision-Blizzard's first quarter 2016 financial report just hit the internet, and the company is declaring "better-than-expected" financial results. "For the quarter ended March 31, 2016,...

Waxing philosophical about SWTOR companions with BioWare’s Charles Boyd

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Just in time for this week's May the Fourth festivities, I spoke to Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Charles Boyd. He currently holds the title...

The Secret World works on revamping elite skills

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Hope you're not too attached to your elite skills in The Secret World, because change is coming. Big change. Sweeping, epic reform that in...

Riders of Icarus starts selling founder’s packs and releases gameplay trailer

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Planning ahead for those hot summer months? Why not schedule a vacation in the sky, complete with dragons, aerial combat, and all the free-to-play...
This is the chamber where the party will die.

Pantheon’s Visionary Realms hires more developers

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The Pantheon team is a bigger one today, as Visionary Realms has announced that it's taken on five new members for the development team --...

Atlas Reactor switches from a free-to-play to buy-to-play model

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Trion has decided to launch Atlas Reactor as a buy-to-play game. "During Closed Beta, we’ve been figuring out how to best tune our Free to...

Mars-themed survival sandbox ROKH launches Kickstarter campaign

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Darewise Entertainment has officially launched the Kickstarter for survival sandbox ROKH today. The game allows players a freeform sandbox experience surviving on an eerily...

EverQuesting: The gaffe of gating EverQuest II’s content behind a sub

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With last week's release of GU100 in EverQuest II, an interesting conversation reared its head again -- a not necessarily flattering one for Daybreak. While...
Same as it ever was.

Crowfall’s ‘universe’ plan could mean regionalized servers

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"PvP is the universal language of gaming," says Crowfall studio ArtCraft in a new blog post last night. "Killing other players is a transcendent...
To return where others have gone before, but not like this.

Star Trek Online announces its third expansion: Agents of Yesterday

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Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starships named Enterprise. Their continuing missions have been to explore strange new worlds, to...

Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs

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"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper." That might well...
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Star Wars: The Old Republic will add weapon tunings outside of the cash shop

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Cosmetic options are a very big part of Star Wars: The Old Republic, so adding a new cosmetic option to the game is going...

TERA teaches you how to fly above your dreams

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Yes, you may have heard that flying mounts are indeed on their way to TERA. But exactly how will you turn the sky into...