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]

Lord of the Rings Online players hits level cap by baking millions of pies

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If you thought that you were super hardcore because you have raided all the things and are so drenched in purple that other colors...

Sandbox MMO Fractured has rebalanced PvP and added respecs in its spring alpha

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MMO sandbox Fractured has been busy this past month as its spring alpha continues. Early on in the month, Dynamight Studios dropped its first...
Closer.

Four Winds: Why are Asian MMOs monetized the way they are?

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Welcome to Four Winds, Massively OP's newest column, dedicated to Asian MMOs and the culture around it. As the resident Black Desert columnist, I'm...

Star Wars The Old Republic is handing out guild commendations due to a Conquest Invasions bug

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While Star Wars: The Old Republic continues to get set for the release of Update 6.3, which as of right now is still hanging...
Kerstab.

Perfect Ten: Here is the stuff you can have when I quit this MMO

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Paul Simon once said that there had to be at least 50 ways to leave your lover. Back in the day, however, there was...
Shocking!

Dungeons & Dragons Online adds the Perils of the Planar Eyes and spikier damage calculations

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The latest update for Dungeons & Dragons Online is adding some spikes. No, not with the game's newest set of adventures that are available to...

The Daily Grind: Which MMOs are still on your bucket list?

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The other day I was running through our full list of MMORPGs and taking note of titles that I've never played at least once....

YouTube video series hilariously lampoons MMORPG tropes

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If we're being frank here, we have to admit that a whole lot of the structure and interactions of MMORPGs are quite silly if...
Gonna go fight a boss.

Project Gorgon brings out its Attack of the World Bosses event with new signposts and fewer adds

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Eager to go fight some world bosses in Project Gorgon? The Attack of the World Bosses event is kind of the time to do that,...
For you it's all in a day.

The Feast of Swords returns to Final Fantasy XI

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Despite its name, the Feast of Swords in Final Fantasy XI does not actually allow you to eat any swords. You will be given no...

Warframe rolls out free skins and four weeks of 8th birthday celebrations

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Even MOP's MJ did a doubletake when Warframe announced its eighth anniversary celebrations last night. That's because Warframe's launch month is March, not April....

Amazon’s New World adds achievements and updated faction PvP to the alpha

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As if to reassure everyone that Amazon Game Studios really is planning on launching New World rather than canning it like everything else, the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 318: Middle-earth no more

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Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's Lord of the Rings MMO's cancelation, LOTRO's Bilbo patch, FFXIV's 5.5, and SWG Legends' Bespin expansion, with adventures in WoW Classic, Guild Wars 2, Albion Online, and Cozy Grove, plus mailbag topics on ugly duckling MMOs, reconciling immersion, and superhero MMOs.

EVE Online highlights how industrial players provide the fuel for the sandbox MMO’s wider wars

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As any player of EVE Online will tell you, waging galactic-sized wars in the game requires a lot of resources -- especially when those...
carry

Interview: Mortal Online 2 CEO on stress testing, persistent plans, and the MMO market

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It's not every day that I actually get an answer, let alone a number, when I ask an MMORPG developer how many people showed...

City of Heroes’ Homecoming buffs travel powers and adds tour guide missions in today’s i27p2 update

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Back in March, we covered a new patch that had just gone in testing for the test server for City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue...

Choose My Adventure: Further group adventures (that weren’t IAs) in RIFT

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Once again, the polls from last week were a split between people saying I should queue for normal dungeons and others saying I should...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Possible futures for Guild Wars 2’s strikes and dragon response missions

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Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga gave us a new type of endgame group content starting with its prologue chapter: Strike Missions. Each episode introduced...

Swords of Legends Online opens preorders with minimum $39.99 buy-in for closed beta

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If you've somehow missed the deluge of class reveal trailers from Swords of Legends Online the last two weeks - or you can't be...

Casually Classic: Four alternative day one strategies for WoW Classic’s Burning Crusade

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OK, real talk time, people. Is there anyone out there that, knowing the zone design of Burning Crusade and Blizzard's track record with launches,...