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]

APB Reloaded patches in cross-district matchmaking and new anti-cheat, readies a Christmas event December 18

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This week brought in a fresh patch to the rebuilding MMO APB Reloaded as developer Little Orbit continues to try to modernize the aged...

Monsters & Memories announces plans for an eight-hour stress test December 21

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Are you busy this Saturday, December 21st, by any chance? Would you like to help Monsters & Memories try to set its servers on...

Digital Extremes delays Soulframe’s eighth prelude test phase into 2025

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Remember earlier this month when Digital Extremes was busily adding thousands of news testers to Soulframe's "preludes" test phases, with an eye toward a...

Lost Ark’s Winter Soloist update is live with a solo mode expansion and the new ‘destined protection’ system

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Lost Ark's big winter update, Winter Soloist, is officially here today, and that's not a reference to music: It's the introduction to an infusion...
Riders

End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024

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So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...

Pax Dei plans another ‘cleaning session’ to wash away inactive build plots tomorrow morning

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If you've been away from Pax Dei for a while but were keen on coming back at some time later, then this alert is...

Vitae Aeternum: New World’s Secret Level episode and Amazon’s odd priorities

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Last week, Amazon's Prime Video launched its Secret Level anthology series of short animated episodes based on a variety of games. Included in this...
we go

Blizzard’s 2024 infographic is light on useful info, but gamers did play 8.34B hours in Blizz games this year

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Blizzard president Johanna Faries penned a dev blog to the Blizzard community last night, with kind words for players and developers alongside one of...

MassivelyOP’s 2024 Awards: Best New MMO Class

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Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards! Today's award is for the Best New MMO Class, which was awarded to Elder Scrolls Online's Arcanist...

Corepunk’s servers have been offline for nearly three days as a result of database and infrastructure issues

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This week has been a rough one for those who were hoping to play Corepunk, as an attempt by Artificial Core to put out...

The Daily Grind: Do you stick to a uniform naming convention in MMOs?

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Names are always a contentious and personal topic for MMORPGs, as they are our "face" by which others know us. And there are really...

The Stream Team: The cat’s heist in Guild Wars 2

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While on a quest for a frog in a top hat in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ was introduced to a fairly famous...

Trove sees Snowfest return to the MMO sandbox as Snowvasion ’24 begins

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Hypercute blocky MMORPG sandbox Trove has launched its Christmas holiday celebration as of this morning and Snowfest descends upon the game and snowmen invade...

MMO studio NCsoft inks deals to publish ‘time survival’ shooter and medieval strategy RPG

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The growth of Korean developer and publisher NCsoft seemingly knows no bounds, especially at the tail end of 2024 as additional deals have surfaced...
hands across whatever this fantasy world is called

Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play

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Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.

World of Warcraft’s Siren Isle update goes live this evening with a new zone and Plunderstorm

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Is World of Warcraft's Siren Isle named that because there's a bird native to the island that has a call which sounds like "WEEE-OOOO"...

Tarisland celebrates the holidays with snowball fights, buff-granting cookies, and an ice giant December 18

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Tarisland will not be ignoring the Christmas season in its first year of life, but that's not a surprise considering Tencent promised a seasonal...
DEATH STALKS YOU AT EVERY TURN

World of Warcraft is surveying players on removing the Mythic+ timer and replacing it with a death counter

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In any sort of combat-focused gameplay, the player character is generally seeking to not die. (Also during non-combat-focused gameplay, to be fair, but the...

Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions

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Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
It's a jumping off point.

Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025

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We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...