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]

Massively Overthinking: Reconsidering the MMORPG daily quest

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Dailies. The word evokes pure hatred from some corners of the MMORPG world. And yet games without dailies are dinged for not having enough content...

Global Chat: An MMO to call home

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Home. It's what many MMO gamers are looking for in a title: to plant down roots and find a place that exudes belonging. What...

Albion Online starts rework on Morgana’s faction

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Expect to hear gamers in the future shout "MORGANA!" in frustrated anger with fists raised to the sky. This will be thanks to Albion...

Aion Europe gets Abyss update on April 27

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Aion's Abyss continues to be a source of great conflict in the game, a fact that won't change when Update 4.91 comes to the...
But think of all the experience someone else is going to get!

EverQuest II introduces Experience Vials with its next major update

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We all have a friend or two in MMOs that's a really good player but really lousy at actually leveling. Some people just don't...

The harsh lesson City of Titans learned from Kickstarter

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When fans bankrolled a project to bring a superhero MMO to live to the tune of a little over $678,000, it wasn't without a...

The beta for Elite: Dangerous’ long-awaited Engineers update arrives in May

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Frontier has just announced the beta for Elite: Dangerous 2.1, better known as The Engineers, will open for beta access players the week of...
All balance is relative! But this is definitely unbalanced.

Final Fantasy XIV kicks off the first season of the Feast today

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Are you a bad enough dude to be considered the best Dark Knight in Final Fantasy XIV? If so, you probably are any given...
We're still going.

Anarchy Online’s new subscriber rewards program is live today

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Funcom has just pushed live Anarchy Online's previously announced membership awards in today's patch. You'll need to manually claim your rewards, Funcom says, because "after this...

The Stream Team: Starting SWTOR’s Shadow of Revan

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It's time to move on. MassivelyOP's Larry helped MJ work through Makeb, and now her Agent can finally delve into the Shadow of Revan...

EverQuesting: First impressions of Landmark’s new story system

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When I shared my first impressions of Landmark's big spring update, I admitted that there was sadness to be had, but I also noted that...

Vette gets a big gun in SWTOR’s next chapter, Profit and Plunder

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Hot on the heals of last week's producer livestream announcement, we've gotten a look at the next Knights of the Fallen Empire chapter for Star...
ArcheAge

ArcheAge has big plans to merge its auction houses

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ArcheAge economy players, listen up: Big changes to your market system will likely affect you. In a new dev post, Trion explains that it will...

Exploring Camelot Unchained’s siegecraft system

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How will sieges work in Camelot Unchained? Massively OP reader and YouTuber CloakingDonkey dug into the last official livestream to pull out the good...
Is someone getting the quest, the quest, the quest...

World of Warcraft previews the design of World Quests for Legion

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The next expansion for World of Warcraft is trying something different for endgame. It's not the sprawling dailies of Mists of Pandaria, and it's...

RIFT celebrates year five with new souls, patron quests, and multicore support

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RIFT's fifth anniversary festivities continue this week as the new playable Soul bundle has gone live along with the Carnival of the Ascended world...

Pantheon’s Rogue will throw chemicals in your face

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Hands up: Who wants to play a Rogue when Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen launches? You might be tempted after reading this class' reveal. The...

Guild Wars 2’s spring update launches April 19; watch the teaser trailer

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We've just received an interesting little sneak peek at a teaser trailer for the upcoming Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns Spring Quarterly update that's now...
Sort of like jingles.

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the most user-unfriendly interface?

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Here's the stunning secret about Final Fantasy XI's interface: It gets passed off as being horrible because it was designed for a console, but...
You thought wrong.

WoW hit by DDoS attacks attributed to Lizard Squad [Resolved]

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Bad news for players looking to log into World of Warcraft or Blizzard's other online games. The studio shared that it's been weathering DDoS...