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: Mission running in Elite Dangerous Odyssey

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Last time MOP's Chris took to the stars of Elite: Dangerous, he was in the final leg of Odyssey's alpha test, and in spite...

New World teases next week’s closed beta test – and no, there’s no NDA

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Just this morning we asked our readers what expectations they had for Amazon's New World, and hopefully somewhere in that thread, someone asked for...

Crowfall addresses launch issues, Australian campaigns, marketing, and the game’s first post-launch update

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Crowfall's Executive Producer Gordon Walton has penned a fresh dev blog this afternoon, one week in to the game's launch, to discuss the state...
Give me hope that help is coming when I need it most.

Indeed, Final Fantasy XIV is getting an official cookbook

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If you've ever looked with envy at the polygonal meals lining the tables in Final Fantasy XIV's inns and thought, "I'd eat the crap...
The yeller.

Perfect Ten: MMOs with the noisiest fanbases

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In my particular neck of the woods, there are a lot of big fans of the Boston Red Sox. There's also something of a...

Bless Unleashed hypes up its August 6 Steam launch with a new trailer

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Round8 Studios is very excited to remind players that Bless Unleashed is arriving to Steam this coming Friday, August 6th. So excited, in fact,...
Tape. Lots of tape.

Blade & Soul hands scythe weapons to Warlocks and adds new events in today’s Endless Night update

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Demons attacking a village, people swinging scythes, an update subtitled Endless Night: It all sounds like Blade and Soul is desperate to celebrate Halloween...
Whoops.

WoW Factor: The Blizzard ‘leak’ is probably fake, but it’s still valuable

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So right now it doesn't need to be said that stuff with World of Warcraft is kind of a mess. Shadowlands might have been...
Looking for more to make a boat work.

Book of Travels explains why it’s going with seasons that advance time

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While MMORPGs are very much evolving and growing worlds, often their game worlds are stuck in time where lands, characters, and events are kept...

The Daily Grind: What expectations do you have for Amazon’s New World?

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It's already been a crazy busy summer for MMO tests, patches, expansions, and launches -- and we are far from done. One of the...
UNDEAD UNDEAD UNDEAD

No, Cryptic isn’t giving Magic Legends refugees 7K Zen – but here’s what you *are* getting

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Cryptic giveth and Cryptic taketh away: PWE and Cryptic sent 'round an email to some Magic Legends players today night, a "thank-you gift" for...

The Steam Team: Underwater racing and Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 4

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Before things went crazy, Massively OP's MJ was on the shore waiting to run the underwater skimmer race in Guild Wars 2, the next...

Pearl Abyss is building an art center in order to ‘create more realistic and cinematic games’

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It appears that publisher/developer Pearl Abyss is very serious about making its upcoming titles as realistic as possible. How serious, you ask? Try spending...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 330: Swords of Crows Online

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Justin and Bree discuss the launches of Crowfall and Swords of Legends Online, Fallout 76, WoW's story mess, and Elite Dangerous, with adventures in Albion Online, LOTRO, SWG Legends, Crowfall, WoW Classic, and FFXIV, plus a quick mailbag topic on Albion crafting.

Runes of Magic promises to improve performance, merge servers, and introduce new content (again)

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This summer will be bringing some updates to Runes of Magic, which won't be involving any new content but will hopefully make life in...

Trove celebrates sixth birthday with Sunfest party, questing, and cake

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Sunfest has returned to Trove just as the game is celebrating its sixth birthday, at least if you're on PC or a console not...
HEEEEEY

EverQuest II deploys a multi-faceted patch of fixes

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Sometimes you just need to make a boss's stare less smoldering. Other times you need to make sure that a Necromancer's pet is referred...

Action MMO Vindictus adds the rapier-wielding character Tessa in latest update

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Just this past June we were wondering whatever happened to Nexon's action combat MMO Vindictus, a game that launched back in 2010. At the...

Guild Wars 2 adds legendary armory and Twisted Marionette boss today, picks up Homeland actress for End of Dragons

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Guild Wars 2 is about to have a pretty big day, what with the launch of both the legendary armory and the return of...

Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade entry ditch

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With this year's Burning Crusade Classic, the dynamics of leveling in WoW Classic shifted just as they did originally. Before Burning Crusade came along...

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