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]

Indie MMO One Hour One Life’s latest update annihilates nearly all of its reported issues

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The indie sandbox MMO One Hour One Life has made a lot of strides recently, with the game continuing to crank out new updates...

The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel

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It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...

World of Warcraft offers up a new short story about a… poetry contest

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Thalyssra and Lor'themar are about to have a poetry slam! Okay, not really, but in a new short story from World of Warcraft, the...

Global Chat: Does SWTOR fail in the end for (Han) soloers?

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As his name suggests, FibroJedi is a big Star Wars: The Old Republic player -- but even so, he is not above criticizing the...
Ahem.

Ashes of Creation partially lifts its NDA, discusses open world housing and caravans in a livestream

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Things appear to be going rather swimmingly for Ashes of Creation. During the game's most recent developer livestream, the team touted an eight hour-long...

One Shots: Posing is half the battle

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It's not just enough to tote around a legendary weapon in your MMO -- you're going to need to learn that posing is half...

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?

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A few weeks back, I was swapping my SWG Legends character to a new class when my five-year-old daughter started begging me to swap...

Jukebox Heroes: The best of Echo of Soul’s soundtrack

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Echo of Soul is one of those MMORPGs that seems doomed to languish and be tossed around from publisher to publisher until it fades...

Lord of the Rings Online confirms Summer Festival and Farmer’s Faire for August

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For those Lord of the Rings Online players who work their free time in-game around events, there's been an asterisk on the game's Summer...

Phantasy Star Online 2 offers installation fix suggestions, promises a hitching patch on June 10

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Phantasy Star Online 2 has made good on the promise for more communication it made in its apology for the MMO's botched launch posted...

The Daily Grind: Helmet on, helmet off?

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It's the perennial question of MMORPG characters: Do you wear a helmet or not? This may be a trickier question than it first seems. Avatar...
All right, here we go.

Betawatch: Torchlight III wraps up its closed testing

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So it appears that Torchlight III has finished its round of closed testing! Great! And what happens next for the game? When is the next round...

Gloria Victis adds a new world event, kicks off its new Glory season, and improves AI and party system

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It's been a hot minute since Gloria Victis last graced our news page, so for anyone who hasn't been keeping regular tabs on the...
Three years of this.

OrbusVR plans summer events, treasure hunting, and economy tweaks for the rest of 2020

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With OrbusVR's recent mini story pack behind it, the devs are moving on to the content coming for the rest of 2020, starting with...
Terra, then Terra again.

Wild Terra 2 starts an open test event for all on June 9

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The original Wild Terra was reasonably wild, we suppose, but Wild Terra 2 posits a substantially more wild situation than the first one. Still, you may...
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Champions Online is invaded by nightmares and celebrating raptors

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Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk with a dinosaur in Champions Online. For those of you who wish to live by this...

Wurm Online patches in volumetric lighting and PvP adjustments

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The bloody battlefields of Wurm Online are about to have some much prettier skies. In the latest patch, players can experience the new volumetric...

Glitch revival Eleven has apparently been undergoing stress testing this spring

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Fans of the whimsical Glitch had high hopes that one of the two revival projects might come to fruition in the years that followed...

Arcfall fleshes out its sandbox world, hopes for a 2020 launch

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It has been two years since the old school-flavored Arcfall entered early access on Steam... and two years later, it still sits in early...

Old School RuneScape continues improving the Chambers of Xeric, announces a Darkmeyer release date

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Old School RuneScape continues to stay busy on the news front with another round of Poll #71 improvements to the Chambers of Xeric and...

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