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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Blade & Soul opens a ‘Revival’ landing page touting visual upgrades, engine changes, and dungeon updates

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Blade & Soul is very excited about its upcoming Unreal Engine upgrade to the point that a newly opened landing page is calling it...

Legends of Aria indefinitely delays patch, works on experimental server instead

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We've certainly been wondering what's happened to Legends of Aria, which went really quiet in the early part of 2021 here. The last we...

LOTRO Legendarium: How much value does a VIP subscription offer these days?

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Probably the biggest question any Lord of the Rings Online player has to ask him or herself is whether to go subscription or free-to-play...
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The Daily Grind: Where would you live in an MMO if you could?

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Sometimes MMO developers and artists are so very good with creating welcoming and gorgeous zones that I think that I wouldn't mind moving there....
Sure, great, grand.

Betawatch: Zenith plans its alpha for April 16

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Playing a game on a VR headset already feels kind of futuristic, but the upcoming Zenith is a bit more futuristic than even that. And...

ArenaNet promises to fix the Guild Wars 2 GeForceNow account lockout issue

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If you swapped to playing Guild Wars 2 through GeForceNow thanks to the deprecation of the game's old Mac client - or if you...

LEGO Universe emulator Darkflame Universe outlines its next steps to closed beta

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Let's say you were swimming around in the retrospective of LEGO Universe and it got you pining for the brick fjords, so you look...

MMO Business Roundup: Theorycraft, My.Games, the FIFA fixing lawsuit, and Roblox’s latest concert

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Theorycraft: Could you found a new games studio on $37.5M? Yeah, probably. A bunch...

Interview: Camelot Unchained lays out its innovative alchemy system

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One of the major slices of content being worked on in this current 90-day quadrant of Camelot Unchained development is its crafting system, specifically...

The Stream Team: Meeting the Son of Braken in AQ3D

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Her friends wanted to take her to meet the Son of Braken in AQ3D last week, but Massively OP's MJ didn't qualify. She aims...

EverQuest II brings back Brewday with a new quest and new items

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The adventurers of EverQuest II work hard, so if their preferred method of taking the edge off from all of that heroic work is...

ArcheAge Unchained announces new Fresh Start servers arriving on March 25 as server merges continue

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Who here would like to start from square one in ArcheAge Unchained? You're going to be getting your wish this coming Thursday, March 25th,...
These references, however, remain.

WoW Factor: Will most WoW Classic players genuinely move on to The Burning Crusade?

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So as much praise as I had for the WoW Classic side of the World of Warcraft equation last week, there's something that was interesting as...

RuneScape’s login servers had a meltdown, forcing the game to roll back a few hours

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RuneScape has been having a bad couple of days. Players of the MMORPG started running into issues logging in at around 9:00 a.m. EST...

Tamriel Infinium: Previewing Elder Scrolls Online’s Flames of Ambition DLC and Update 29

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It’s that time of year again, fans of The Elder Scrolls Online! The new yearlong story is about to kick off with the first...
Parses were still a thing, even then.

World of Warcraft’s valor patch comes next week while WoW Classic flirts with #somechanges

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A systems and balancing patch is hitting World of Warcraft's live servers next week as Blizzard fine-tunes Shadowlands before it brings Patch 9.1 out...

The Daily Grind: What’s your primary reason for alting in MMORPGs?

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Last weekend, I fell back into City of Heroes rogue servers as I do now every few months, and instead of making a beeline...

The Stream Team: Celebrating 15 years of Dungeons & Dragons Online

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How old is your dungeon? Or your dragon, for that matter? DDO's are 15 as of this week. That's 15 years to celebrate! Massively...

Massively Overthinking: ‘Dead games’ in the MMO space

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I had a laugh a while back when I spied this tweet in my feeds from a Bungie CM who was suggesting people mute...
WRONG KIND OF SHINE

Final Fantasy XI announces more Voracious Resurgence and the pinnacle of Odyssey for March

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Is March the cruelest month in Final Fantasy XI? You might not think so, but consider that players will be forced to contend with the...

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