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]

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Mortal Online 2’s beta patch adds bear bags for the ursine on the go

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Ever since Mortal Online 2 announced its solemn intentions to carve a bloody swath through the gaming space when it launches next January, there...

Grab a free Steam key for MMORPG Gloria Victis [Ended]

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Gloria Victis has been on our radar for years: It's a realistic medieval MMORPG with action combat, territory control, a player-driven economy, class-less character...
Which hand is my hand?!

Interview: Cryptic untangles Neverwinter’s new battle pass experiment

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Earlier this month, we learned that Cryptic is planning a multi-tiered battle pass for Neverwinter. Echoes of Prophecy will serve as the content campaign...

Raph Koster says nobody wants a metaverse with ‘Fairyland butting up against World War II’

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In his ongoing blog series on the metaverse, MMO developer Raph Koster has been digging through the technical challenges of how to build it...
Those are people who died, died.

WoW Factor: The disjointed state of World of Warcraft

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Right now, it feels like World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. This is not exactly a surprise. It's also not exactly helped...

Working As Intended: Brute-forcing the MMO industry

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If you're a music fan, and you probably are since you're a human, you've probably come to grips with the sense that somehow the...

Lord of the Rings Online explains legendary item revamp and conversion method

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Does it seem fair that your average Lord of the Rings Online goblin, who can barely afford a rusty tin axe on his weekly...

New World, Day 4: New servers, long queues, transfers next week, and Jeff Bezos weighs in

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We're guessing the engineers at Amazon Games aren't getting much sleep right about now. Since the launch of New World on Tuesday, the servers...

The Daily Grind: When are ‘microtransactions’ too much in MMOs?

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Two money-related topics crossed my desk the last couple of weeks. The first was a Reddit topic complaining about microtransactions in MMOs - not the...

Massively Overthinking: Initial impressions of New World

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Amazon's Queue World - uh, I mean, New World - is finally upon us. In fact, I imagine that it's been hard to avoid...

EVE Online begins testing a new deployable that summons rogue drone swarms

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The Researching the Rogues event in EVE Online looks to be expanded into a regular form of gameplay for capital-class ships in the game...
Cutty time

Blizzard is launching new WoW Classic fresh-start servers for its ‘Season of Mastery’

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On a previous MassivelyOP Podcast, we joked about whether WoW Classic needed its own Classic version. Apparently, that's not too far off from what...

SoulWorker celebrates a year on Steam with boosts to XP and drop rates, special items, and a contest

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A year ago, SoulWorker developer Lion Games pulled itself from the ashes of its sunset at the hands of Gameforge to a self-published return...

Blade and Soul prepares for the Halloween season with the return of Blade and Ghoul on October 6

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The spooky season is fast approaching Blade and Soul as the game prepares for its annual Blade and Ghoul Halloween event. This year, players...

Black Desert PC preps season+ server graduation, Atoraxxion’s next act, and Elvia Realm changes

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If you've been pushing through the season+ server of Black Desert on PC to the point you're ready to head to the regular servers,...

Tamriel Infinium: Anatomy of Elder Scrolls Online’s quests

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An amazing thing happened on my way to the MMO variety store: I got completely sucked back in to Elder Scrolls Online. It did...
I can show you the world.

Vague Patch Notes: The problem with flight and flying maps in MMOs

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The other night, I found myself inevitably funneled into a mistake. There wasn't much I could do about it, sadly; Guild Wars 2 had decided...
I'm on board.

Project Gorgon’s latest patch has added animal husbandry and a town players can level up

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Project Gorgon's fall update is upon us this week. "There's a new high-level zone, several new skills to find, and a metric tonne of...
Reap what you sow.

Final Fantasy XIV recaps the many system changes revealed in the latest live letter

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Let's not mince words, there was a lot of information in the most recent letter from the producer for Final Fantasy XIV. Like, a...
Don't call me Kyle right now.

World of Warcraft continues to cut abusive emotes in upcoming update

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Even as World of Warcraft players grapple with the high drama that is PictureGate, there's another part of the game that's being phased out...

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