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]

Why I Play: Returning to Guild Wars 2 and exploring elite specs after nine years

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I have a strange history with Guild Wars 2. I fell hard for the pre-launch hype, and when it finally arrived, I loved it...

WoW Classic allows some free character transfers on legacy shards

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Player characters who decided to stay on WoW Classic's "Classic Era" realms after Burning Crusade Classic came out this past summer knew they had...

New World, Day 2: Where Amazon’s new MMO stands on queues, concurrency, servers, and transfers

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It's been almost 24 hours since the final region of New World went live, and those have been an interesting 24 hours, as anyone...

Book of Travels explores its card-based gambling minigame, begins earlybird access October 1

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The multiple-times-delayed tiny MMO Book of Travels is still on track for an October early access launch, which means that Might and Delight is...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best castle sieges?

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I think that the very last time I engaged in any sort of castle siege in an MMO had to be back in my...

2-D retro MMO Mirage Realms is once again under heavy development

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Back in 2016 the 2-D retro-styled MMO Mirage Realms crossed our notice; it's a single person project that sought to take an old school...

Halloween returns to PlanetSide 2 as Nanite of the Living Dead on Friday

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We realize it's not October yet, but we're just a few days off, which means the spoopy season is about to get underway in...
Factured.

Fractured fires out patches left and right for its fall alpha

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If you were expecting a quiet and calm fall alpha test for Fractured, this sandbox MMO is bound to disappoint. Nearly every day since...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 340: New World cometh

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Justin and Bree discuss New World's launch, Diablo II Resurrected, LOTRO's Gundabad, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Book of Travels, and Ultima Online, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on New World's infrastructure and LOTRO's closed servers.

Nexon announces plans to globally publish PC and mobile MMO Heroes of Incredible Tales 2

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Do you remember a game known as Heroes of Incredible Tales? It was a mobile multiplayer ARPG from developer NAT Games that made its...

Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King returns next week with a bonus XP event

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You know, if you suffer from karamelokalampokiphobia - or more colloquially, candycornphobia - you're not going to enjoy a lot of MMO Halloween events,...

SWG Legends caught exploiters mass-deleting ‘thousands’ of game objects

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If you got booted out of Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends yesterday, know that a malicious exploit was the reason, and while...

Choose My Adventure: DC Universe Online just ended up making me love City of Heroes more

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Third verse same as the first. If nothing else, DC Universe Online is consistent in how its leveling game works, though there were a...

Hands-on: Does New World hold up in the midgame and beyond?

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You know how you're granted a look at a new game, whether it's through an open beta or a demo or a preview event,...
Other glows.

World of Warcraft will add glowing hand customizations to Nightborne characters in patch 9.1.5

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Do people refer to your Nightborne character in World of Warcraft as "Ol' Glowyhands" or "McGlowhands" or "Captain Glow of the Hand Brigade"? Of course...

New World is live around the globe as some queues cap at 25K and concurrency passes 700K

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Amazon's New World is officially live everywhere now as the West coast servers have just gone live, and it's blown way past its beta...

Neverwinter says its Demogorgon trial isn’t ‘harvesting enough tears’ from players

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Neverwinter has had enough with players slapping around its supposedly fearsome Demogorgon. Citing that the trials isn't "harvesting enough tears" from players, Cryptic is...

VR MMO Zenith raises $10 million from investors, says ‘not much’ will change about development

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We've been a little skeptical about the long-term prospects of Zenith, but the virtual reality MMORPG has a better chance today of making it...

The Daily Grind: So, are you playing New World on launch today?

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I'd tell you not to plan on playing New World today, but... you're MMORPG players. You already know this advice, and you're probably also...
The Olympic committee looks really different now.

Activision-Blizzard says it’s settling with the EEOC, committing $18M to victims and charities

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Last week, we covered the revelation that multiple federal agencies, including the US Securities and Exchange Commission and U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, were...

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