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]

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...

The Stream Team: One final flight in the Elite Dangerous Odyssey alpha

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With the alpha testing of Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion drawing to a close, MOP's Chris is keen to get some flight time in the...

Choose My Adventure: MapleStory insists on getting in the way of fun

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I am mightily surprised I'm having such a bad time with MapleStory - especially considering how much I enjoyed the sequel, which you'll recall was...

The Elder Scrolls Online provides a closer look at Blackwood’s companion system

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Walking the wilds of The Elder Scrolls Online by yourself is perfectly fine, but sometimes you need a friend to come along with you...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Recapping the entire Guild Wars 2 The Icebrood Saga

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When looking back on Guild Wars 2's The Icebrood Saga, I think the most noticeable feature was its many ups and downs. If I’m...
Sulking.

World of Warcraft: Classic details major arena rating changes for The Burning Crusade

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At this year's online BlizzCon offering, the WoW Classic developers joked that they were moving on from hashtag-no-changes to hashtag-some-changes. It now appears that perhaps...

Happy Star Wars Day! SWG Legends has launched the Bespin expansion, SWG Restoration 3 will launch May 28

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If you're on social media, it's impossible to miss right now that May the Fourth is happening for Star Wars fans everywhere - and...

DC Universe Online offers roadmap for free episode initiative, PS5 client, and summer updates

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DC Universe Online dropped a major dev blog this week detailing some pretty significant changes for the game coming this summer. The studio seems...

Rumor: WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade is coming on June 1

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Could World of Warcraft Classic's first expansion release be coming a whole lot sooner than expected? It could be! According to a brief Blizzard...

The Daily Grind: Can we please nuke the term ‘filthy casual’ into the sun

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A while back, MOP reader Aldristavan tweeted a joke about being a "filthy casual" that leaped out at me so hard I had to...

Massively Uplifting: Gaming charity endeavors support vets, autism, and AbleGamers

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While still sneaking some spring snow in (bad weather!), April also showered us with some uplifting moments and goodness. Warm fuzzies are far better...

Project Steel promises a first-person sandbox MMORPG, is already shifting its Kickstarter plans

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When you launch your crowdfunding campaign and then decide to close it and relaunch it after only five days, that can only mean good...

Xsyon makes one final step towards full launch with the testing of bows and ranged combat

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It has been quite a while since we last checked out Xsyon, the sandbox MMORPG set in a "post-apocalyptic fable" that has been in...

EVE Echoes optimizes its market board in latest update, won’t have skill injectors until at least late 2022

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If you've perhaps forgotten that EVE Echoes, the mobile version of the venerable spaceship sandbox MMO, is a thing, then perhaps we can help...

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