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]

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...

Project 1999 players race to fight EverQuest bosses in a charity drive for a family

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Regular readers will recall that we've previously reported on Project 1999, an officially sanctioned player-run private emulator for EverQuest, primarily regarding things like its...
Sandy sand.

AdventureQuest 3D releases the finale of the Sandsea Saga and prepares for Mogloween

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The ongoing adventure of AdventureQuest 3D's desert epic has reached its apex with the finale of the Sandsea Saga, which features a fight against...

Lineage II Aden raises the drawbridge for castle sieges this week

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It's time for Lineage II Aden players to batten down the hatches, heat up the boiling oil, and prepare the diseased cattle for catapulting,...

RuneScape applies extra Treasure Hunter changes and releases the Croeseus Front

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The weekly update for RuneScape has once more arrived, but this time around there are some pretty sizeable changes going on. At the top...

The Elder Scrolls Online challenges players to earn community rewards in the Bounties of Blackwood event

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Earning rewards in an MMORPG is well and good, but earning them in a larger communal effort is even better. It's in that spirit...

City of Titans’ lead gameplay designer on combat engine progress and other developments

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The developers of City of Titans are talking among themselves. That's not to say they're trying to be gossipy; they're sharing some internal interviews,...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad launches November 10 – preorders have begun

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Standing Stone Games has finally taken the wraps off the Fate of Gundabad expansion for Lord of the Rings Online in today's big preorder...

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