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]

The Stream Team: Explosive Friday night fun in AdventureQuest 3D

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Does one have to have plans on a Friday night? Welll, playing AQ3D is plans, and Massively OP's MJ has those plans! But that...
Well, let's give this a shot.

Betawatch: Embers Adrift kicks off its backer beta

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Want to test out Embers Adrift and see how it holds up after everything the developers have hyped up over the years? You can do...

Cornucopias’ The Island is an upcoming MMO brimming with blockchain babble

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Imagine if an MMO developer decided to rake up every NFT and blockchain buzzword and system, then pigeonholed and sewed them together to make...

SUN Classic pre-pregistration website goes up ahead of its March launch

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Are you ready to go back to Soul of the Ultimate Nation? Or more likely, engage with the MMO for the very first time?...

The Stream Team: Black Desert Online is still beautiful as it ages

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Six years in and Black Desert Online is just as beautiful as when it started. The sandbox celebrated its sixth birthday yesterday, and Massively...
Mossy.

Final Fantasy XI rolls out more Ambuscade content while delaying Voracious Resurgence story beats for March

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Here's the bad news for the March version update for Final Fantasy XI: It's missing its headline feature this time around. The plan was to continue...

Mortal Online removed two alternate continents in favor of increasing server capacity

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You might have noticed that the angry chanting surrounding Mortal Online 2's long queues and server woes has died down since launch, though we're...

Black Desert’s test realm features a new matchmade PvP arena and the return of the alpaca mount

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Black Desert's Global Lab, aka its test realm, has introduced some interesting features for players to peer at and provide their feedback on. One...
Unseen.

WoW Factor: Beyond the Spires, a speculative WoW expansion exercise

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Let's get something weird going here for the last of these speculative exercises. I could keep doing this for a while now, if we're being...

MMO Cartographer: Exploring ‘tiny MMO’ Book of Travels

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On its website, Might and Delight describes Book of Travels as a "Tiny Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game," but that is an inadequate description of this...

ArcheAge addresses compensation miscalculations that zeroed out player credit balances

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It flew under the radar, but earlier this week, Kakao addressed a messy situation in ArcheAge we can charitably call a credit compensation caper....
A new road has begun.

Final Fantasy XIV previews dungeons, quests, and improvements for patch 6.1, Newfound Adventure

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So what do you do after you save the world from a malingering threat at the edge of the universe? In Final Fantasy XIV, you...

Lost Ark’s T1 and T2 content nerf is now live as Amazon sees T3 as the real endgame

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If you were still unsettled by the mild controversy over Lost Ark's planned dungeon difficulty balancing update, well, continue being unsettled, as those changes...
Here we go again.

WoW Classic public test realm datamining points toward Wrath Classic

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While nobody really denies that Wrath Classic is coming to World of Warcraft's legacy servers, we are still waiting for that official confirmation --...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO that you’re not playing?

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The reality of the MMORPG genre is that even when the genre was small, there weren't enough hours in the day to play everything....

The Stream Team: Celebrating Dungeons & Dragons Online’s sweet sixteenth

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If games could drive, Dungeons & Dragon's Online would get its license this week! (Well, I'd stay off the roads if I saw a...

Massively Overthinking: Initial thoughts on Guild Wars 2’s End of Dragons

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We're just a few days into the launch of Guild Wars 2's End of Dragons, one of the highlights of the year and sandwiched...
Attract mode.

Closers adds a new LEGION Program encounter and engages several events in newest patch

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Now and again, you just need a nice, quiet instance where your chosen member of the Closers roster can slap the ever-loving stuffing out...

Side-scrolling 2-D MMO Element Quest has relaunched as Sunset World Online

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You'd be forgiven for having missed Element Quest, the 2-D platforming MMO inspired by MapleStory that released in November 2021 and then shut down...

Aion NA brings back the Shugo Game event for another round until March 18

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Are you prepared for another series of dangerous and deadly minigames involving ambulatory weasels? If your reply was, "Are you typing this while taking...

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