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]

The Stream Team: Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Festivult and the final Risia Ice Games

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With a new winter event starting early next year in DDO, Massively OP's MJ needs to hurry and celebrate the last iteration of Risia...

Wizard101 talks up 2021 stat rebalancing and PvP changes, Pirate101 adds a free respec for subscribers

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The producer of Wizard101 really likes the world of Karamelle. That's part of the impression given by her recent producer's letter, which talks up...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Music of 2020

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Music of 2020, which last year wasn't directly awarded; instead, we...

Massively on the Go: Understanding what an MMO community will pay for

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Earlier in December, I posted some Pokemon Go news that included player complaints about a recent Mr. Rime paid event. While there was a good...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020

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Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...
Uggo

The Daily Grind: Does this holiday season affect your MMO time?

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Normally, the holidays are a time with stuff happening. There's traveling to be done usually as you see members of your family, there's stuff...

The Stream Team: Celebrating a SWTOR Christmas with snowballs

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You might think that all there is to Christmas, er Life Day, in SWTOR is slinging snowballs at droids. Not that that isn't fun,...

Open PvP MMORPG Profane provides a brief look at creature behavior in a recent video

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What do a guy, a dog-sized porcupine, and a crab that looks like a rock have in common? They all feature in a quick...
Popcorn appropriately.

ToxMod is a new moderation tool that recognizes and reports voice chat hate speech in real-time

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Moderating a game's text chat isn't easy by any means, but at least there are a variety of tools and algorithms that try to...

MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best MMO post that is actually just song lyrics

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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best MMO post that is actually just song lyrics. (If you’re wondering what the...

World War II Online aka Battleground Europe gives two free weeks of play over the holidays

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What better gift to get over the holidays than bloody and unending conflict that harkens back to 80 years ago? That's the joy that...

The Stream Team: Catching the Krampusnacht spirit in Secret World Legends

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Was there ever a year more fitting for Krampusnacht? And for Massively OP's MJ, the season just isn't complete without some Secret World Legends...

Lost Ark KR shows off new classes, a new continent, and new raids coming in 2021

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While we still don't have any firm word on what the hell Amazon is doing with the possible western launch of MMOARPG Lost Ark,...

End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2020

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With so many delays, it's a wonder that anything released this year at all! And while new patches and expansions trickled rather than flowed...

Exclusive: Ashes of Creation Alpha One preview of the Mage class

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If you lurk around the Ashes of Creation community, you know that this has been a huge week for the game as its alpha...
Venting prevents ex-plo-si-on.

Both sides of EVE Online’s massive World War Bee 2 have agreed to a Christmas truce

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Mark the date of Monday, December 21st, 2020 in your calendar if you're the sort of person following EVE Online history as Internet Spaceship...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Indie MMO of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Indie MMO of the Year, which was awarded jointly to Villagers & Heroes...
Fighty smashy!

Crowfall recaps an eventful 2020 as it pushes forward to launch in 2021

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At one point we used to joke about how many times Crowfall had delayed its full alpha and its beta testing... but no more,...
Nope.

PSA: The Steam Winter Sale is now live, complete with steep MMO discounts

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You probably already learned this from finding that dozens of games on your wishlist were on sale, but the Steam Winter Sale is live...

Daybreak’s $300M sale to EG7 is all wrapped up just in time for Christmas

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Just days before Christmas, one of the biggest MMORPG studio deals this year has fully completed. Enad Global 7 announced that it closed the...

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