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]

Global Chat: Saying farewell to City of Steam

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No doubt by now you have heard that the indie steampunk City of Steam has been shuttered. And while its demise won't change the...

Battle Bards podcast listens to housing music

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When an MMO player gets cozy in his or her in-game home, the sound is as essential to the ambiance as the decor. Not...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 50: Happy birthday MOP!

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On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and Bree discuss MOP's first birthday, DUST 514, H1Z1, DCUO, Hearthstone, Anarchy Online, Diablo III, and TSW, with a mailbag question on the return of MMO subs.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Thieves Guild DLC patch notes

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ZeniMax Online Studios has released incremental patch notes for the version of Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC currently on the public test server. Expect...
Too soon? No.

Nerd Kingdom is ‘strongly considering’ making TUG free in some form

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As TUG engages in the process of transferring over to a new engine, Nerd Kingdom continues to discuss what it's thinking in regard to the...

Pumpkin Online downgrades from MMO status, aims for beta by winter

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Let's do a catch-up post on the development of the non-combat dating sim Pumpkin Online, shall we? Back in October 2015, the team decided...

Hellbug event makes strange bedfellows of Trove and Defiance

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One thing that's quite apparent by now is that Trion Worlds adores its crossover promotions. It's happening again, as Defiance's hellbugs are breaching the...
Needs a little lie-down.

Neverwinter’s Underdark lands on consoles, Maze Engine is prepped for PC

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It's getting very dark for Neverwinter players on the Xbox One. One might even argue that it's getting underdark. Why one might argue that...

Amazon reveals new game engine and multiplayer game service

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Engines have been big news for MMO players in recent months as indie sandbox The Repopulation's struggles with Hero Engine drove it offline and...
Star Citizen

Star Citizen’s 10 for the Devs on the shooters that influence its combat

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Star Citizen Animation Director Steve Bender and Technical Director Sean Tracy helm the game's latest Ten for the Developers video, in which they spend...

RIFT talks about its new souls, one might be the Maelstrom

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The RIFT community is certainly abuzz about all of the big changes and plans for the game in 2016, not the least of which...
Remember, you were the ones who couldn't wait for this game.

Take a look at the endgame setup in Bless Online’s current beta

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The level cap is going to be where you spend the lion's share of your time in any online game just by the nature...
Nope, not illustrating this. Have a spaceship.

EVE Online patches in a new camera and skill point trading

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The developers behind EVE Online work very hard to make sure that the game is pretty to look at. That's important. But you can...
No levels, but still levels just like always.

Trove’s new character power ranking system rolls out today

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What level is your favorite character class in Trove? There are rather more answers to that question than you might think. Sure, there's the...
Black Desert

Reserve your Black Desert character names today ahead of beta 2

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Black Desert's name reservation period opens this afternoon at 1 p.m. EST as promised. Pre-order players can swing over to the name reservation website...
TIme to pay the pipers indeed.

SWTOR continues the expansion story with today’s Anarchy in Paradise release

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It's time to get angry, break things, and start some fires in Star Wars: The Old Republic. Patch 4.1 Anarchy in Paradise arrives today, and...

Skill Trading is coming to EVE Online tomorrow, prices revealed

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A few months ago, CCP Games announced its somewhat unorthodox plans to allow EVE Online players to extract and sell their skill points on...

The Stream Team: Continuing Storm’s story in Marvel Heroes

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Marvel Heroes 2016 is here, and it brought more story. However, MassivelyOP's MJ still has most of chapter 9 to finish up before she...

PSA: Beware of scammers abusing MMO clan Gaiscioch’s name and domain

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Gaiscioch clan's Benjamin "Foghladha" Foley and friend of Massively OP has apparently become the victim of a strange sort of gaming-related identity theft. "Over the...

Indie MMORPG Sacrament releases landscape flyover video

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Remember Sacrament, the ultra-difficult, jack-of-all-trades MMORPG by indie dev Ferocity Unbound Core Studios? In apparent cooperation with the studio, YouTube channel OP Game (no...