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]

Gamigo has laid off an unspecified number of RIFT devs, says MMO will continue

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Yesterday, we learned through a trusted tipster that multiple Gamigo developers situated in the US and working on RIFT had been laid off from...
Guess who's back. Back again.

Perfect Ten: Ten things that killed me in Final Fantasy XI

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In many ways, Final Fantasy XI was a designed copy of EverQuest. It did, however, remove a lot of the elements of that game in particular....

Black Desert players vote on next GM events as latest PC update brings new quests and plump pufferfish

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What sort of GM-led events will PC players of Black Desert be seeing next? Well, if the results of a player poll are any...

Lord of the Rings Online’s 2021 roadmap includes Wildwood, Bilbo, Blood of Azog, Gundabad, and the LI revamp

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Lord of the Rings Online's Rob "Severlin" Ciccolini just posted a new letter from producer for the community, through if you've been watching the...

The world is vanishing, and only DC Universe Online heroes can help

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No matter what your level of stoic cynicism is these days, I think we can all agree that having the world vanish is a...

EU MechWarrior Online, RUST servers go offline following French data center burning to the ground – no one hurt

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Well, this might be a first for the MMO industry: The data center in Strasbourg, France, that housed MechWarrior Online's servers was partially destroyed...
These cores require additional punks.

The Daily Grind: Where’s the love for MMO Engineers?

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If you announce that your MMO is going to have an Engineer class of some kind, then congratulation: I'm going to play it. In...

The Stream Team: Barrels of beer (and fun) in EverQuest II’s Brewday

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Having already missed Erollisi Day, Massively OP's MJ is not going to miss out on EverQuest II's Brewday! Who knows how much beer her...

The Realm Online prepares to launch ‘radical, disruptive’ seasonal server

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If you haven't stepped back in time and visited The Realm Online lately, you might want to see what fascinating things this rebooted 2-D...

MMO game studio comedy Mythic Quest debuts its second season on May 7

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Back in January of last year, we reported on the comedy series Mythic Quest, which comes from many of the creators and writers of...
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MapleStory previews the upcoming Spring Blossoms update, complete with cafe and Mechanical Hearts

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Spring has not yet quite sprung into MapleStory, but it's soon to spring away with the game's upcoming Spring Blossoms update coming in the near...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 312: Written in the stars

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online Flames of Ambition and Update 29, WoW Classic, Daybreak's Aliens Fireteam, and City of Heroes, with listener mails and recordings on MMOs that are more fun to play than watch, a 2010 time capsule, Blizzard's Mac thing, and out-of-touch pockets of MMO fans.
Here we go with this nonsense again.

TitanReach has officially kicked off early access

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To hear the story of Titan Reach, you might not believe the game would have gotten this far. The MMO from Australia-based Square Root...
Another artist's conception of something unrelated.

Allods Online plans for Desert Dreams update launch and server merge on March 11

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A bit of good news, bad news for Allods Online players. The good news is that the upcoming Desert Dreams update will be arriving...

Back under Naddic’s direction, Closers adds new dungeon and raid to defeat the Ocean King

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So, how's Closers doing since transferring back from Krafton and En Masse to its original developer Naddic last fall? Not too shabbily: Naddic has...

Choose My Adventure: Fizzle frustration, boss beatdowns, and slowly forming strategies in Wizard101

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Remember last week how I wrote about being surprised at the depth of Wizard101’s combat? This week I learned that the game’s combat can...
This is new, this is new, this is new.

Star Trek Online podcast to introduce Gene Roddenberry’s son to the MMO

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When you have a dad who created one of the most famous scifi IPs of all time, you best ride those coattails all the...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s ‘Balance’ chapter, launching today

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Another month, another round of Dragon Response Missions. Balance is part three of four chapters in Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga, and things are...

Whatever happened to superhero MMO Valiance Online?

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As one of the original community-led "Plan Z" superhero MMORPGs that sprung up in the wake of City of Heroes' original demise, Valiance Online...

Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade revolutionized WoW questing

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While it's been a blast stepping back into an era where I can re-experience World of Warcraft as it once was, playing WoW Classic...

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