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]

Faces.

World of Warcraft forbids mirroring tools, but multiboxing is still OK

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While multiboxing is technically still allowed in World of Warcraft, it's going to be a lot more difficult to pull it off due to...
Kerspear.

The Daily Grind: Should international MMOs have global servers or regional servers?

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My first experience with MMOs was Final Fantasy XI, and so it was weird to me when I started getting some experience in the wider...

VR MMO Zenith kicks off its early bird alpha, shifts dates for later alpha testing

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Zenith, the in-development VR MMO from studio RamenVR, has made its first major steps as the game began its early bird alpha this past...

Profane talks about mitigating PvP stagnation, avoiding zergs, and territory control mechanics in an AMA

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Insane Studios, the developers of the upcoming PvP sandbox Profane, arrived to the PC gaming subreddit for an AMA to field a variety of...

Trove updates the Chloromancer as ArcheAge hands out free ArchePass XP boosters

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If you blinked, you missed it: Trove rolled out a big update last week for the Chloromancer class on the PC. The patch changes...
Built.

Combatless MMORPG A Tale in the Desert reboots later this month

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A Tale in the Desert, which MUD creator Richard Bartle called the "most innovative MMO from the last decade," is starting all over. Yet...

Black Desert PC changes underwear names, talks up a class tournament, and adds a horrible tech worm

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That headline sure reads like a mishmash of things for Black Desert, doesn't it? Well, that's kind of because it is, so really there's...

Desert Oasis: The best Black Desert quality-of-life changes

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I wasn't there at launch, but I've played Black Desert long enough to see some major changes in the game. And since the game just...

Crowfall talks up plans to add new player improvements, social UI features, and hot zones

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Yesterday saw yet another ACE Q&A livestream from Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Thomas Blair, which offered up a short-term development roadmap that promises...
Balance.

Vague Patch Notes: Checking your bias when it comes to MMOs

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What are your biases when it comes to MMOs? It's all right, you can be honest about them here. Maybe you're biased against games...

Kakao Q1 2021 financials: ArcheAge 2 won’t be ready until at least 2024

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As MOP's own Carlo has written at length, Kakao is a massive company with its fingers in many pies - most recently the delicious...
Slice

Blade & Soul gives more details about its Revival PvP ranking system

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As you might have been tracking, Blade and Soul has a massive update called Revival that's coming to the game in the third quarter...
Closer.

Elyon offers pre-loading ahead of first western closed beta tomorrow

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We've been joking around MOP that May is "World Beta Month" due to how many MMO betas that are scheduled to run over the...
Sitting around.

The Daily Grind: What do you think of Crowfall’s chances these days?

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According to ArtCraft itself, Crowfall looks quite promising to launch in 2021. That is tremendous news to its long-suffering fans, many of whom backed...

EVE Online’s Foundation Quadrant celebrates the game’s 18 years and four empires with challenges and gifts

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If you thought that a call for player footage for a video montage was all that EVE Online was planning to do for its...

The Stream Team: City festivals and assorted EverQuest II adventures

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Massively OP's MJ is less than pleased with the bottleneck she's run into trying to work through Reign of Shadows' signature quests. Thankfully, there...

PSA: Download the Black Desert companion app, get an adorable pupper

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I admit, I don't play Black Desert very much and I very often ignore limited-time login gifts or rewards, but for the intensely adorable...
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Activision-Blizzard Q1 2021: Blizzard lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years

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Welcome back, my friends: It's time for another Activision-Blizzard investor report, and we're expecting this one to be a ride. Readers will recall that...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 320: Guild Wars 2 shakes and stirs

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, EG7 and Daybreak, Soulworker's sunset, and the patch parade of PlanetSide 2, Wizard101, Fallout 76, SWTOR, and Dungeons and Dragons Online, with adventures in WoW Classic, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on perpetual content in MMOs and toxic positivity in the genre.
I've seen things.

TitanReach shows off new animal models that have glimpsed the unknowable

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Look at the deer up there. That is the new deer model TitanReach has unveiled in its most recent development entry, and it is an...

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