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: What are the great ‘popcorn games’ in the MMORPG genre?

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MOP reader Elenie recently put the concept of "popcorn MMOs" back on my radar thanks to a comment about Neverwinter being an MMO many...

Black Desert Mobile merges all of its servers down to one shard per region

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It may be fall, but Black Desert Mobile is doing some serious spring cleaning with its servers this week. The mobile version of the...

Warframe releases Xaku Prime, opens a 1999 social hub, and reminds players to merge accounts

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This week has a little bundle of highlights for Warframe players as the action multiplayer title slides its way into its alternate history past...
YOU AND HIM FIGHT

Throne & Liberty has kicked off its first Arena season post-launch

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No more amateur hour for Throne & Liberty: The first Arena season has officially started with the game's 1.7.0 patch. That means you should...

Guild Wars 2 unveils Mount Balrior, its first proper raid in five years

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So if you're looped into the Guild Wars 2 scene, you already know that the second big chunk of the four-part Janthir Wilds expansion...

Here’s everything you need to know about next week’s WoW Classic Classic launch

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With yesterday's surprise announcement that WoW Classic is launching "Classic Classic" fresh start realms next week on November 21st, plenty of questions were raised...
Hardly lonely.

Vague Patch Notes: Going solo isn’t a problem in MMORPGs

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So I'm wrapping up a month of talking about how MMORPGs are by necessity social games. These are games in which you need other...
boy howdy

Path of Exile apologizes for botched account update that took the game offline yesterday

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Earlier this week, Path of Exile studio Grinding Gear Games announced that it was planning a fresh patch with important changes to account management...

WoW Classic’s Season of Discovery server gets serious about Ahn’Qiraj next week

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With all of the announcements flying out of the Warcraft Direct stream yesterday, news about WoW Classic's Season of Discovery servers got a bit...

The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMORPG zone that you think looks visually stunning even today?

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I'm really glad that Final Fantasy XIV's first crossover raid with Final Fantasy XI will include an area based off of Tu'Lia, also known...

Wizard101’s Selenopolis update is live with a modernized Krokotopia realm

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When a studio says its MMO getting a "mammoth-sized update," we pay attention, and that's exactly what KingsIsle Entertainment has done today with its...

WoW Factor: Thoughts on World of Warcraft getting housing and Classic Classic fresh start servers

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With no BlizzCon this year and a pretty full and constantly updating roadmap for World of Warcraft unfolding (including this month's 20th anniversary activities),...

G-Star 2024: Nexon teases Supervive, Project Overkill, and Arc Raiders as it celebrates its 30th birthday

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Nexon brought its A-game to G-Star 2024 in Busan, South Korea, and by A-game, we really mean its whole game because the company has...

Star Citizen launches a new multi-stage Save Stanton event to pad the time until alpha 4.0

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There's going to be some time between now and when alpha 4.0 arrives to Star Citizen. So what are players supposed to do in...

Warcraft Direct: World of Warcraft Midnight has player housing, WoW Classic Pandaria in 2025, and WoW Classic Classic

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Friends, today is not-BlizzCon, which is to say that Blizzard decided not to hold a BlizzCon event in the year when World of Warcraft...

Guild Wars 2 just launched on the Epic Games Store – here’s the new trailer

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Yesterday, when ArenaNet laid down Guild Wars 2's roadmap for the next few months, the studio teased that the game would be coming to...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: Why I still love Final Fantasy XI today

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You know what's really funny to me when I think about it for more than five minutes? Final Fantasy XI is, at this point,...

Elder Scrolls Online releases U44 on console as ZeniMax Workers United goes on strike

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Elder Scrolls Online console players are finally getting their crack at the unexcitingly named Update 44 today as the update that's been live on...

Pearl Abyss Q3 2024: Black Desert declines, EVE Online flattens, Crimson Desert dithers

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Pearl Abyss - minus Pearl Abyss America head Jeonghee Jin, who left for NCsoft America this past summer - released its Q3 2024 financials...

Nexon Q3 2024: DNF Mobile and MapleStory propel Nexon to record-high revenues

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Nexon is celebrating its Q3 2024 financials this week - and we do mean celebrating, as the company claimed "record-breaking quarterly revenue" of ¥135.6B...