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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Star Trek Online is bringing its Borg multiverse event to Xbox and PlayStation next week

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It's not Star Trek if you're not milking the popularity of the Borg for all its worth -- a lesson that Star Trek Online...

Star Citizen marks progress on alpha 4.0’s AI, server meshing, and backend tech in October report

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This week is when Star Citizen looks back at the work of last October and condenses it into a developer progress report. Regular followers...

Soulframe is opening up its ‘preludes’ test phases for up to 10,000 more people a week

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If you've been watching Digital Extremes talk up Soulframe's preludes testing phases over the last few months, then this might be your moment, as...

The Daily Grind: Do you actually care enough about cosmetics in MMORPGs to buy them?

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You know, we joke a lot about how "fashion wars is the real endgame in MMOs," but it's not always true. I know there...

World of Warcraft’s newest map, Siren Isle, will eventually allow some flight with tons of rep and token farming

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Update: Fresh datamining of the latest PTR build released just after we published this renders it all moot, so flight folks can rejoice: Apparently,...

Albion Online is overhauling dynamic encampments and mists camps already

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Albion Online's first real patch since the launch of its quarterly Horizons update landed today, and as you might expect, it's primarily a clean-up...

Trove is already preparing its Thanksgiving event as Gamigo puts its whole catalogue on sale

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With Halloween behind us, blocky sandbox Trove is already gearing up for a holiday that most MMORPGs don't do at all: Thanksgiving. Trove's version...

EverQuest II’s Scars of Destruction expansion now has a hard date of November 20

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The fact that EverQuest II is getting an expansion toward the end of the year is not any sort of revelation, given that Daybreak...

PlanetSide 2, fresh off an EU server merge, kicks off its 12th anniversary celebrations today

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Somehow, the news that PlanetSide 2 is turning 12 years old this month strikes me as both way too high a number and way...

New World’s weekly patch cleans up some bugs and buffs visual quality as the devs talk hippos

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All right, a New World update, let's goooooo! Oh, it's a really tiny patch? And it turns off Halloween? Well, dangit. Yes, New World's Aeternum...

Kakao Q3 2024: ArcheAge 2 aka ArcheAge Chronicles has been delayed yet again

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Kakao Games dropped its third quarter financials this past week, and it's a bit of a mixed bag - especially if you were anxiously...

First Impressions: Brighter Shores has gobs of potential buried under mountains of grind

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When I first heard of it, I wasn't sure that Brighter Shores would be a game I wanted to play, but watching development unfold...

Throne & Liberty boasts 4.5M unique players in its first month

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If you're in the arguably right guild in Throne and Liberty, you've already got quite a few things to do (and most of them...

Daybreak’s MMO Extra Life teams combine to raise over $150K for children’s hospitals

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We would venture to say that a story to restore a little faith in humanity is probably necessary for a lot of folks right...

MMO Hype Train: Brighter Shores is a totally chill RuneScape clone

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Former RuneScape creator Andrew Gower admits that he never planned to make another MMORPG -- at least until enough fans convinced him to give...

The Crew Motorfest launches season 5 with the Made in Japan Volume 2 and Chase Squad playlists

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The Crew franchise has been through a bizarre year, from provoking a whole game preservation movement after the callous sunsetting of a beloved MMO...

Lord of the Rings Online releases its 10th expansion, Legacy of Morgoth, this afternoon

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Fasten your cloak and pack a fresh batch of lembas bread, for Lord of the Rings Online is calling all of its high-level adventurers...

The Daily Grind: When’s the last time you felt MMO class envy?

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If there's an underlying social engine that fuels competition in MMOs, perhaps it's envy. We're faced with the fact that -- no matter what...

Brighter Shores officially launches into early access today, hoping to court RuneScape players

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It's early access launch day for Fen Research's MMORPG Brighter Shores, a game so new to our radar that it wasn't even a known...

The Stream Team: Pushed Against the Wall in Guild Wars 2

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Two titans -- it can't be that bad, can it? Uh, yes. With double trouble in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ has to...