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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Champions Online is hosting a costume contest of opposites tonight

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Inside of every superhero there are two wolves. (Aside from Wolfspout, the man who summons infinite wolves.) One of them has already won, as...

NCsoft Q1 2020: Double YoY revenue thanks to Lineage 2M, Tencent to pub Guild Wars 2 in China

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Business is booming over in NCsoft's world, though it's not because of its western holdings. In this first quarter of 2020, the South Korean...

Blade and Soul confirms the launch of the Steel Bonds update for May 20

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Players of Blade and Soul have already had to deal with a Steel Uprising, and now that story is due to continue with the...
We're fine.

World of Warcraft rotates in the Gravity Lapse brawl as the Impressive Influence buff winds to an end

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It's time to get used to going up into the air in Eye of the Storm over in World of Warcraft; the most recent...

The Daily Grind: If you had your way, what one MMO patch in history would you roll back?

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Rollbacks are in the news lately, and not for great reasons - some Guild Wars 2 players did indeed lose hours of time played...

The Stream Team: Finding The Lost Gatekeepers in Dungeons and Dragons Online

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Apprentices from the Gatekeepers -- an order of druids that protect the world from extraplanar threats in DDO -- have gone missing, and Massively...

Massively Overthinking: Do MMOs need ‘adult’ character customization?

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A Random MMO Fan recently wrote to us with a fun topic, linking to an article about Cyberpunk 2077's ESRB rating, which is apparently...
fly fly happy

Aion launches its next chapter, Shadows Over Balaurea, on May 27 for North America

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Your time in Balaurea in Aion is changing in the game's NA version on May 27th. The game's next chapter is bringing some big changes...

Astellia’s Tulie update is coming on May 26

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The next big content update for Astellia Online is just a couple of weeks away, although we don't know much about it. The studio...

The Stream Team: Being a Berserker in AdventureQuest 3D

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It took a bit of time, but Massively OP's MJ has earned enough tokens to unlock AQ3D's first Tier II class: the Berserker. And...

New World deep-dives spriggan boss encounters and design in new dev blog

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Here's the thing about spriggans: They're scary as hell and you should stay away from them. That's the only logical takeaway from New World's...

Elder Scrolls Blades has just launched for the Nintendo Switch

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Welp, I know where I'm probably spending some time this weekend: The Elder Scrolls Blades. MMO players will recall that the game initially launched...

Desert Oasis: Exploring Black Desert’s guild system, from contracts to drama

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Guilds: one of the quintessential social features of an MMO. Along with grinding, crafting, and partying up, guilds are just one of those things...

PSA: But seriously, don’t buy vampirism cures in the Elder Scrolls Online cash shop

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The Elder Scrolls Online Reddit community has been ablaze this week over a recent in-game promotion in the cash shop that appeared to encourage...
It's a tiny little sprout thing. It might kill you.

Vague Patch Notes: Player vs. class in Final Fantasy XI

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I had finally hit level 41 on Red Mage in Final Fantasy XI. That was when the world changed, and if you played the game,...

Fallout 76’s 2020 roadmap includes seasons, scaling rewards, and the Brotherhood of Steel

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Now that Wastelanders has reshaped the face of Fallout 76, it's important for Bethesda to keep this rare positive momentum going. So what about...
Why believe in angels?

World of Warcraft: Shadowlands has many new race customizations and is considering endless Torghast runs

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A new alpha build for World of Warcraft: Shadowlands means new character customization options being added, because that is the most important thing in...

Dungeons and Dragons Online winds down its second permadeath server

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With piles of corpses heaped in its virtual graveyard, Dungeons and Dragons Online's second "hardcore" server has ended its run. The limited-duration permadeath shard...
Because you've got nowhere to go.

Guild Wars 2 hands out free mount skins to players who lost playtime in the EU rollbacks

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Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 players in the EU were dismayed to realized that an unintentional rollback of their server cluster had cost...
Expectations.

The Daily Grind: Are starter bundles a bad thing for free-to-play MMOs?

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The other day, I was talking with a friend who raised an interesting point that's still sticking in my head. She was talking about...

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