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]

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...
Please listen.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Blackwood launches on console today – here’s the new trailer

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While PC, Mac, and Stadia fans are already deep in Elder Scrolls Online's Blackwood chapter, but console fans are only just getting their first...

LOTRO’s Update 30 releases with a new raid, zone, and storyline

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Do us a favor, yeah? Poke your neighborhood Hobbits out of their food-induced comas and tell them that Lord of the Rings Online has...

The Daily Grind: Do you roll MMO alts that you never actually level?

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Roger at Contains Moderate Peril penned a fun piece a while back about the lost alts - the alts that get left behind, the...

Global Chat: Having a blast in Burning Crusade

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How's Burning Crusade Classic going for those of you venturing back into Blizzard's past? MMO blog Priest with a Cause is having a great...
Yay? Yes?

Ravendawn shares over 30 minutes of uncut pre-alpha gameplay footage

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Are you curious to learn whether the in-development old-school MMORPG Ravendawn is as much of a Tibia lookalike as Redditors claim? Then perhaps you...

Open Perpetuum targets boss camping with time limitations

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Open Perpetuum's strongholds have proven to be a popular features for the sandbox MMO, but that doesn't mean that they're perfect. The volunteer dev...

Pearl Abyss opens new studios in US and Europe as part of western expansion efforts

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Pearl Abyss very clearly has eyes on expanding its reach further into the western market. The publisher/developer of Black Desert has opened up two...

Closers introduces its latest character Eunha with new events and a pre-starter pack

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The cast of the side-scrolling action MMO Closers is expanding once more, and this time it's getting a mope-filled scarf-wearing debt collector who loves...

Old School RuneScape adjusts to Theatre of Blood feedback, RuneScape announces mobile launch date

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It's the start of a new week, and that means another deluge of updates coming out of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape. We'll start...

World War II Online turns 20, tweaks sub, plans Steam launch and UE4 conversion

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Cornered Rat Software's MMO World War II Online is 20 years old, believe it or not, and still under development "so as the create...
Dear Blizzard, how are you? I am fine...

Naoki Yoshida of Final Fantasy XIV considers World of Warcraft a ‘mentor’ for the game’s relaunch

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If you need to know the degree of regard that Final Fantasy XIV's director and producer Naoki Yoshida has for World of Warcraft, a recent interview...

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