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]

What we do

Camelot Unchained squishes bugs and improves performance in crunch time

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The Camelot Unchained team is hard at work bringing the game into a beta state, and that means killing bugs. The good news is...
Mead mead mead mead mead mead.

The Daily Grind: Does EverQuest Next’s cancellation change your MMO outlook?

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By now you've surely read the news that Daybreak has canceled EverQuest Next. To many of you, it was likely not a surprise, but...
You were never real after all.

Betawatch: EverQuest Next is gone, Landmark is launching (March 11, 2016)

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We cannot wave farewell to EverQuest Next in this column because it's never actually been in testing. We will be able to wave farewell...

The Stream Team: The makings of a Black Desert merchant

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One of the aspects of Black Desert that MassivelyOP's MJ has been looking forward to the most is  trade; she's always preferred waging economic warfare...
Let's go into a room with danger.

Marvel Heroes 1.05 patch brings Archangel team-up, Cosmic Hightown tweaks

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Marvel Heroes' latest patch, 1.05, has arrived, bringing with it Archangel as a team-up character who'll be exclusive to team-up advance pack 2 owners...

The Stream Team: Letting the Landmark (and EverQuest Next) rage out

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Just when MassivelyOP's MJ decided to postpone her Landmark stream to find a bunch of fun things to tour, Daybreak goes and does something...

World of Warcraft CM Zarhym leaves Blizzard

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Long-time World of Warcraft Community Manager Jonathan Brown has left Blizzard, according to a brief notice on his Twitter account. There was no explanation...
We were the kings and queens of promise.

Colin Johanson says farewell to the Guild Wars 2 community

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Last week's big surprise on Friday was the departure of longtime Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson from ArenaNet. Rumors and surprise swirled...

The Secret World’s Issue 14 will be in Egypt, releases in March

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Today's Streaming Ones dev livestream announced that The Secret World's Issue #14 will take place in the familiar sands of Egypt -- and that...
But robots.

WildStar suffers major round of layoffs

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Update: WildStar has allegedly suffered a massive round of layoffs as part of a "reorganization"; some sources suggest as many as 60 70 people...

Shards Online gets ready for a big hype push in April

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Next month Shards Online will stir from its deep development slumber and lurch out into the sunlight, either to terrorize neighboring villages or to...
It is a world with nothing nice to say about Jay-Z.

Mortal Online explains the Etherworld in depth

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The latest patch for Mortal Online allows players to hide objects inside of the ether world, pick up and leave objects inside of the...

SWTOR posts storyline trailer for KOTFE: Disavowed

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Star Wars: The Old Republic's latest Knights of the Fallen Empire chapter, Disavowed, went live for regular players this week, and now BioWare has...
Yes, yes it is.

Daybreak has canceled EverQuest Next, Landmark is launching ‘this spring’

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Daybreak has officially canceled EverQuest Next. President Russell Shanks just broke the news on the official site this afternoon: To Our Daybreak Community, I’m writing today...

Perfect Ten: What your MMO racial pick says about you

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In real life, we can't (usually) pick our race; we kind of get assigned one at birth, thanks to our parents, and we go...
Darn it, if you had just kept her hair brown...

Crowfall shows off the Ranger in action

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The Ranger of Crowfall has been making the rounds lately as the resident orange-haired green-clad lady shooting arrows at targets. That part is... yeah,...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha

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The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...

EVE Online’s Project Discovery netted almost half a million classifications in its first day

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First announced back in 2015, EVE Online's Project Discovery got underway this week. It's a science collaboration that rewards EVE players in-game for playing a...
Also, more cats in general, please.

Black Desert attempts to ‘suppress’ gold selling market

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"Due to the increased 'goldseller' population, we are beginning to put systems in place to suppress their market." These words come from the Black Desert...

The Daily Grind: How strictly do you hold MMO devs to their ‘promises’?

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I tried to tackle a question from MOP reader Serrenity, who wanted us to talk about...