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]

Massively OP Podcast Episode 279: New World in the new year

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Justin and Bree discuss New World, WoW Shadowlands, Dual Universe, Legends of Aria, Elder Scrolls Online, and Torchlight III, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on lazy development and Mists of Pandaria.

Elder Scrolls Online’s Stonethorn DLC launches August 24 for PC, September 1 for console

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Elder Scrolls Online is apparently not wasting any time when it comes to its Stonethorn cadence. After announcing the new DLC last Thursday, it's...
Safe!

Elite: Dangerous fixes an installation issues for fleet carriers that may result in a new crew member

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Fleet carriers have some bugs in Elite: Dangerous, and the newest patch for the game arriving tomorrow is fixing one of the major bugs...

Book of Travels’ eight-week beta test this past spring won’t be its last

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If you blinked, you missed it: Might and Delight's Book of Travels closed beta began in May, and it ended just eight weeks later....

Choose My Adventure: Exploring the Caves of Chaos in Dungeons and Dragons Online

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I’ve heard you loud and clear, Dungeons and Dragons Online friends. There were a number of comments on last week’s column espousing the virtues...
oh no skellingtons

World of Warcraft: Shadows Rising is a solid book stuck in an uncomfortable midspace

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My long-standing policy for the prequel novels for World of Warcraft expansions has been to not read them. We've gotten these things for a...

Tencent now completely owns Funcom, purveyor of Conan Exiles and Secret World Legends

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Dune, Conan Exiles, Secret World Legends, Age of Conan... all of these properties and more are now directly under the thumb of China's Tencent. Funcom...
Are you, like... doing all right?

Guild Wars 2’s next episode, Jormag Rising, launches July 28 – here’s the new trailer

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As promised, ArenaNet has pushed out the trailer for Guild Wars 2's next episode, titled Jormag Rising and launching in just two weeks. "Chapter four...

Previewing Dual Universe’s space PvP, construction, looting, and death

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It's no secret that my favorite aspect of Dual Universe is the opportunity for creativity. Bring on that voxel building! Oh the hours I'll...

The Daily Grind: Should MMOs charge subs for beta?

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Dual Universe is not the first MMORPG to charge a sub for a beta - let me just state that upfront. So today's Daily...

EVE Online’s Zenith update begins the apex to the Triglavian invasion, adds new items and features

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Today marks the rising crescendo of the Triglavian invasion in EVE Online. The Zenith update kicks off the beginning of the sandbox's third quadrant...

Vendetta Online adds prediction monitoring to combat PvP lag and make space debris physics smoother

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Vendetta Online can predict the future. A very specific future, anyway. A future involving where dynamic debris will go and where players are going...

Shroud of the Avatar previews an adventure set in Lord British’s castle

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Lord British might be about to be busy dunking himself in the ocean, but his castle in Shroud of the Avatar is going to...
No Ryan Lewis on this one.

Occupy White Walls proudly announces a big art lift with its latest update, the Heist

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The team behind Occupy White Walls is pretty proud of this art heist. It's not a real heist, of course, but the update is...

Lost Ark kills the gender lock, adds the Scouter, and preps for global release

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Momentum is picking up for the long-long-awaited Lost Ark, which just began its closed beta (in Japan). A Redditor reported that the beta patch...
Over and over.

Players in WoW Classic have defeated Onyxia without wearing anything at all

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Who says you can't make your own fun in a themepark? That's just what one raid group did in WoW Classic, electing to take...

Former ArenaNet founder and former Riot Games dev get $5.7M for their startup studio One More Game

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What can you do with $5.7 million? Apparently, beef up your own game studio. Patrick Wyatt, a former founder of ArenaNet and En Masse...
Classy.

Wisdom of Nym: What to do in Final Fantasy XIV during the 5.3 patch delay

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Here we are in July, and we're not going to get our next patch for about a month. Normally, this isn't such a big...

The Elder Scrolls Online shares another 360° preview of a Stonethorn dungeon and adds it to PTS

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It's time for not-really virtual reality with The Elder Scrolls Online once again! Following up on a similar dungeon preview for the upcoming Stonethorn...

Fight or Kite: Examining Crowfall’s newbie systems, from God’s Reach to Awakening

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Despite the current pandemic we are all living through, one thing you absolutely have to give the team at ArtCraft credit for is continually...

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