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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The Elder Scrolls Online previews a whole castle full of the undead with Castle Thorn

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Castle Thorn in The Elder Scrolls Online has lots of undead. No, really, it has more undead than that. They're squirting out of the...
This. Is. Exhausting.

World of Warcraft connects two EU realms while planning its Heroic raid testing for Shadowlands

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It's almost time to make sure that heroic raids are sufficiently... well, whatever they're supposed to be in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. It can't...
The climb.

Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.3 gets a trailer along with more patch details ahead of August 11

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Patch 5.3, Reflections in Crystal, arrives in Final Fantasy XIV on August 11th after an unusually long delay. But if you need to see...

Guild Wars 2’s voice actors miss you, too

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On the last episode of the podcast, Bree said that she was going to hold off playing any of the newer Guild Wars 2...

The Daily Grind: What were some of the most memorable MMO outages?

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This past week, many Lord of the Rings Online players impatiently nibbled on lembas bread and took to Reddit as several of the North...

Sandbox MMORPG Past Fate readies another Kickstarter campaign and shows off alpha footage

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Alright, this one is going to need a bit of a refresher. Past Fate is a sandbox MMORPG that we showcased last December which...

Black Desert player opens over 1,000 Oasis Dream Chests during a livestream

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Remember when Black Desert had the Find Your Oasis event where players could earn Oasis Dream Chests full of stuff? How many of those...

Yoink a MU Online, C9, Flyff, or Rappelz gift bundle in Webzen’s summer 2020 giveaway

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Webzen is celebrating summer once again with a long list of events across its whole catalogue of MMOs, including including MU Online, Rappelz, Flyff,...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 280: Middle-earth practices social distancing

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Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.

RuneScape invites players to return to The Beach and offers a chance at a Cerberus pet

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This week in RuneScape appears to be pretty focused on events. For one thing, the summertime Beach is back between now and August 10th,...
Your stuff, can I have it?

Ultima Online’s 109th update has arrived with new dynamic tools for event GMs

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Happy patch day to Ultima Online fans! Publish 109 is live for the almost-23-year-old MMORPG, and it's a bit different from previous publishes, which...

The Stream Team: Socially un-distant undead are sieging AQ3D’s Battleon!

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So many new things arrived recently in AQ3D that Massively OP's MJ couldn't experience them all at once. Apparently, undead are craving some social...

Choose My Adventure: Accidentally going to Hell and other Dungeons and Dragons Online misadventures

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I’m only level 3 and already Dungeons and Dragons Online has elected to whup my ass. By the barest margin, the polls said to pick...

Hello there! Star Wars The Old Republic just officially launched on Steam

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Remember back when EA refused to put much of anything on Steam, lest it compete with its own Origin platform? Those days have fast...
WORK THAT SOUL OR SOMETHING

SoulWorker Anime Legends is available now for mobile devices

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If you really enjoy SoulWorker Online but find yourself frustrated that there are times when you have to be away from your desktop and...

Nexon’s new mobile and PC MMO V4 arrives on July 22 — here’s a panoramic trailer

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Over the course of this past June we've been checking in on V4, a new MMORPG from Nexon arriving to PC and mobile devices...

LOTRO has now been suffering downtime and tech issues for an entire week

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It turns out to have been a bad week to start subbing to Lord of the Rings Online. As we've been covering, LOTRO is now...
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

World of Warcraft has been post-Pandaria longer than it has been pre-Pandaria (in the EU)

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When dealing with a long-running MMO, it's easy to sort its history into eras based on expansions. But it's also good to remember that...

The Daily Grind: Do you rely on reviews for your MMO purchases?

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On MOP, we don't do formal reviews; we've spent the last 10 years arguing that MMORPGs change so dramatically from year to year that...

The Stream Team: Elder Scrolls Online presents The Liar, the Witch, and the Werewolf

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After Massively OP's MJ snuffed the life out of the queen's assassin, she discovered what the coven was plotting in ESO's Greymoor. And it...

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