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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]

Make My MMO: Book of Travels has already doubled its Kickstarter ask

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we've got a new addition to the Make My MMO list: Book of Travels, the "tiny multiplayer online"...
Big hall.

Final Fantasy XIV elaborates on the additions to housing for patch 5.1

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Updates to housing for Final Fantasy XIV are coming in patch 5.1 beyond the addition of new wards. Sure, the addition of three new wards...

Legends of Aria details a US server merge and PvP rule adjustments for Point Release 8

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It's time for a server merge of sorts for US players of Legends of Aria. Assuming all things work out, Wednesday, October 30th, will...

EVE Vegas 2019: EVE Online’s Invasion expansion chapter 2 arrives November 26

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More features and more Triglavians are coming to EVE Online with the release of Invasion: Chapter 2, the... uhm... second chapter of the Invasion...

The Game Archaeologist: A brief history of Multi-User Dungeons

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You know that sinking feeling when you get into something that's way, waaaay over your head and you have no choice but to swim...
Creep.

Astellia Online runs a pair of free trial weekends

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Do you have any pressing plans this weekend? Astellia Online hopes not because the team would really like to get you into this new...

The Daily Grind: How has an MMO recently tested your patience?

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I like to think of myself as a reasonably patient man. I'll line up at the DMV or Disney and wait my turn for...
store

Betawatch: Star Citizen patches up to 3.7.1

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Yo dawg, we heard you like Star Citizen patches, so we applied a patch to another patch so your Star Citizen patch has another Star Citizen...
spoop

EVE Online brings out its Halloween horrors for the spooky season

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It's time for EVE Online to get spooky. You may wonder how scary a game can really make itself when being blown up for no reason...

MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft’s stock drop, Skull & Bones’ delay, Google games

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Welcome back to another depressing super fun roundup of business news from the MMO industry and adjacent climes. Ubisoft We don't cover a lot of Ubisoft...
We're fine.

World of Warcraft will be locking down corruption values on the test server

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The new Corrupted item system being tested for World of Warcraft has already received a fair amount of feedback, generally in the negative. The...
But THIS time it'll work.

Bless Unleashed explains the multi-tiered process of equipping your character properly

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If you were worried that equipping your character would be a simple process of looking at an item level number in Bless Unleashed, you will...

Leaderboard: Did you go back to SWTOR for Onslaught?

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When Star Wars The Old Republic's Onslaught was first announced last April, people were surprisingly excited for it. Oh sure, some folks in the...

EVE Vegas 2019: CCP and Hadean announce a third EVE Aether Wars event for November

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Ahead of EVE Vegas today, CCP Games has announced a third go-round of EVE Aether Wars. Gamers will recall that's the tech partnership with...

Inside Star Citizen shows off its procedurally generated space stations and food courts

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In order to populate the universe of Star Citizen with various rest stops and space stations, the devs are going to have to put...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen details racial passives with new video newsletter

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Hey, kids! How do you like to take your newsletters? Do you like them in neatly organized and well-written text format, or do you...

Shroud of the Avatar works on bards, complains about negative press coverage

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It's no secret that many of us here aboard the Good Ship MOP love us some Bard classes or support classes in general, so...

Lawful Neutral: What’s China really worth to the Western gaming industry?

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You know what we never talk about these days? China and video games! We should do that more. For example, did you know that...
Oh, COME ON, what did that accomplish?

Final Fantasy XIV posts the preliminary patch notes for patch 5.1: Vows of Virtue, Deeds of Cruelty

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Do not try to read the patch notes for Final Fantasy XIV's latest patch out loud in one breath. You will run out of oxygen...
Opposition.

WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s Lich King 2, Tides of Lichness?

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All right, I guess we're doing this now. Yes, this column isn't just about how Blizzard screws up so badly that a lot of...

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