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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Ashes of Creation plans AMA with its creative director

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Come one, come all to the greatest show online! That's right, it's time for another "Ask Me Anything" session, this time with Ashes of...
I guess.

Aion Classic is really happening in the west, and it’s launching in ‘the Americas’ on June 23

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We've been covering NCsoft's release of Aion Classic overseas and the teases and hints that it's been leveling at the western playerbase for a...

TERA Console adds the Stigma system, new dungeons, and a bracelet item in recent update

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Generally speaking, carrying a stigma is a negative thing, but in the case of TERA Console it's actually to your benefit to carry a...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMO prisons where you can do the time of your life

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Chillin' in the clink. Spending time in stony lonesome. Thrown into the slammer. Checking in to the big house. Doing (perfect) 10 to life...

EVE Online adds mobile observatories and begins CSM 16 voting, EVE Echoes launches exploration

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Things are happening in EVE Online. To be fair, things are always happening in EVE Online, but there's some specifically new things happening, starting...
Side activities

Swords of Legends Online shows off three of its side activities in the Ancestral Records

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There's more to do in Swords of Legends Online than just smashing things for quests. You can do that, of course, but you can also go...

Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis is officially live today

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The fabled day has arrived: Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis launches globally today everywhere as planned. Last year brought the western launch of...
These references, however, remain.

Battle.net adds global friend lists with its most recent update

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It's a little easier to have friends across the world in Blizzard's Battle.net services with the most recent update. The latest client update adds...

Albion Online is officially live on mobile today – check out the goofy live-action trailer!

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My phone had a very important message for me when I got up today: Albion Online is installed; you pre-registered for this app, and...

The Daily Grind: What convinces you that an MMO ‘leak’ is the real deal?

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So let's talk about the alleged Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons "leak" that's been floating around Reddit the last few days. An anonymous leaker...

The Stream Team: Beginning Elder Scrolls Online’s Blackwood for real

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Although Massively OP's MJ completed the prologue previously, ESO's Blackwood chapter has now fully launched, so she can jump in and start this zone's...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 325: The bards sing of Palia

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Justin, Carlo, and Bree discuss Elyon, Swords of Legends Online, WoW Classic Burning Crusade, Elder Scrolls Online Blackwood, Aion Classic, Crowfall, Trove, Neverwinter, and Palia, with a mailbag topic on spiritual successors and Guild Wars vs. Guild Wars 2.

Guild Wars 2’s Echoes of the Past and Tangled Paths are free to unlock this week

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All summer long, ArenaNet is dropping old episodes of Guild Wars 2's living story for free for folks who missed them many years ago. Thus...

Swords of Legends Online offers free merch in exchange for beta feedback and shares new gameplay videos

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For those who took part in the recent Swords of Legends Online beta test, the devs would like to know what you think and...

Choose My Adventure: Star Wars Galaxies’ legacy questline is so boring

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Level 22. That was the arbitrary block between me and wearing armor in Star Wars Galaxies. Not level 10. Not level 15. Not level...
Complexity.

World of Warcraft adds new mounts on the 9.1 test server unlocked through special activities

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Are you tired of mounts you get through quests or reputation but want some new mounts just the same? Good news; patch 9.1 has...
These references, however, remain.

Casually Classic: The WoW Classic vanilla era is over, and I won’t miss it

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With the launch of World of Warcraft Classic's Burning Crusade this past week, the door has been (mostly) closed on what is now being called...

Black Desert teases the arrival of ‘a new tide’ and enters a crossover with Bugatti across all platforms

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*WHOCK! WHOCK! WHOCK!* Oh, don't mind that noise, that's the sound of Black Desert trying to hammer the square peg of Bugatti into the round...
tfw you're in love with lovely johnny

Neverwinter’s Odious Court, the last chunk of the Sharandar plotline, is live today

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It's finally patch day for Neverwinter: The Odious Court, the third and final episode of the game's Sharandar arc, is launching today across multiple...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Three better ways Guild Wars 2 could have wrapped up The Icebrood Saga

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It’s easy to be critical of a game when it lets us down. In some ways, it’s equally easy to fall into the trap...

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