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]

Classic EverQuest PvPers plan a protest to agitate for a PvP progression server

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If you've paid attention to EverQuest over the years, you likely recall that one of its hallmarks is lots of different types of servers,...
Isn't it necromantic?

Crowfall offers a two-hour tutorial on digging up graves and practical necromancy

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If you've ever longed for the option to look on your crafting interface and see the option to assemble a higher quality arm for...
weird dog

Black Desert Mobile brings Nouver to the world as the newest boss

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Ah, world bosses. Why do we have to bother them, again? Black Desert Mobile is encouraging players at level 55 and above to take...

Jack Emmert isn’t sure Daybreak will publish his next MMO, says DCUO is as big as it was four years ago

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In January, Daybreak finally announced the fruits of its "realignment" that we'd been covering since last summer: It was splitting off new substudios for...

Leaderboard: Are you still interested in Amazon’s New World, knowing it won’t be reverting to a FFA PvP MMO?

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There's been a big ol' ruckus about New World across Reddit the last day or two, ever since the closed alpha resumed. You know...

CCP confirms the death of Project Nova, will keep future games quiet until closer to ready

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Yesterday, as part of our coverage of Pearl Abyss' Q4 2019 financial report, we broke the sad news that CCP Games' Project Nova had...

Elite Dangerous players agitate for the return of GalNet lore, even if they have to write it themselves

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The trouble with petitions and open letters is that if a studio accedes to one, people are going to keep trying it. That seems...
Mild

Wild Terra 2: New Lands will hit closed alpha this week for high-end backers

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Last fall, Juvty Worlds announced that it had run into the "ceiling of technology" with Wild Terra and was pointing its four-person dev team...
Front lines.

Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.2, Echoes of a Fallen Star, is live today

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It's time! After a wait that may have felt longer than usual but was actually entirely normal, Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch is available...

Albion Online has already nixed plan to cap alliances, hopes to balance with penalties instead

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Last week, we covered Albion Online's big plans to overhaul its alliance system, citing both developer and player unhappiness with how dominant large alliances...

You can link your Neverwinter and Star Trek Online accounts to Steam as of today

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Beginning today, Perfect World Entertainment is finally enabling account linking between Steam and Arc, its proprietary platform for distributing all of its MMOs here...

The Daily Grind: Does an MMO’s economy ever stop you from going back?

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I've written before about MMO economies and how badly handled inflation can wreck them because it's one of my pet favorite topics, but the...

The Repopulation’s latest update once again focuses on optimization and error fixing

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I've often written here about how not every patch or update needs to bring some big ticket feature and that, sometimes, it's just better...

Wurm Online further details changes to Followers and Traders, shows off some new item racks

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If you've been eager for people to compliment your rack in Wurm Online, you'll have a chance to do so very soon according to...

EVE Online discusses DDoS attacks, Plex for Good, the Guardian’s Gala, and more in a video

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EVE Online's latest edition of the EVE Pulse video series has it all: news updates, details on events coming to New Eden, questionable acting,...

Crowfall will start handing out monthly appreciation rewards to its backers

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How do you thank those who have been monetarily supporting your in-development throne war MMO? By dishing out monthly freebies, that's how! Crowfall is...

Minecraft-built sandbox MMORPG Hegemony officially releases on February 22

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Last August, we cast a spotlight on Hegemony, a classic sandbox MMORPG being built entirely within Minecraft. Now, after some considerable work, it's finally...

Temtem opens a new weekly endgame location and makes Luma critters more rare

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The world of Temtem has opened a new location in its latest patch that should be pretty enticing to those who are at the...

The Stream Team: Investigating Valentine’s Day in Secret World Legends

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What better Valentine's gift for Massively OP's MJ than adding a new mission in her favorite game? And her favorite kind of mission at...
Doom approaches.

Blackwing Lair’s first kill in WoW Classic happened less than an hour after the raid went live

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Technically, there was another race for a world first clear last week in World of Warcraft, specifically in WoW Classic with the opening of...

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