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]

City of Heroes’ Homecoming announces Issue 26 Page 3, Halloween content, and collab with other rogue servers

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City of Heroes' Homecoming servers, rogue or not, are pushing forward into legitimacy. As we've been covering, the servers, which have been publicly outed...

PSA: Get your free Dungeons and Dragons Online adventure pack

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Hope you didn't forget that Dungeons and Dragons Online is giving away a free adventure pack of quests in honor of the 10th anniversary...
We don't mean anything bad!

Vague Patch Notes: Crime and punishment and intent in MMOs

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Last week, we saw Blizzard explain its philosophy behind why some World of Warcraft bugs in which players got to get more stuff than...
Whoops.

Astellia Online formally launches tomorrow night – here’s what to expect

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Astellia Online's big day is almost here: After a week of staggered headstart access for pre-order players, Barunson's MMORPG will officially launch Saturday the...

Interview: ArcheAge Unchained’s Merv Lee Kwai on housing, RMT, and the future of the game

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The announcement of ArcheAge Unchained and its buy-to-play, no-pay-to-win ruleset has been one of the big surprises of the season for the five-year-old MMORPG...

Crowfall details the War of the Gods milestone and what it means for an alpha release

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A major milestone is on the horizon for Crowfall in the form of War of the Gods. This collective name for several updates is...

Black Desert Mobile opens pre-registration on iOS and Android as downloads swell to 10M

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Pearl Abyss has been teasing Black Desert Mobile's global launch for the better part of 2019, promising at E3 that it'll hit global devices...

Fallen Earth begins its Last Stand

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After a slight delay due to patcher issues, Fallen Earth's 10th anniversary -- and its final hurrah in its current incarnation -- has begun. Little...

The Daily Grind: Do you set MMO monthly goals?

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There is a trend among us MMO bloggers that started a few years back in which we outline our gaming goals for each month...

The Stream Team: Taking on Neverwinter’s Tower District

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The new Neverwinter adventures continue! Tonight Massively OP's MJ and her group are taking on the Tower District; there is important intel they need...

Massively Overthinking: MMOs, challenge, and flow

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A couple of weeks ago, MMO developer Mark Kern tweeted a controversial claim about how challenge and interactivity is the point of games (and...

Atlas plans one more massive wipe plus weekend update ahead of Xbox One launch

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Yesterday, Xbox One fans got some good news out of in-development pirate MMO Atlas: It's launching on the platform's early access equivalent on October...
That's Trek for you.

Star Trek Online’s patch today continues adjusting patrols rewards

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Here's the bad news for today's patch in Star Trek Online: The Delta patrol missions will be providing less experience at the end of the...

Last Oasis delays early access again, this time to next year

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There's something of a surfeit of survival sandbox MMOs out there, so making sure a game stands out certainly feels more important than ever....

Cyberpunk MMO Zenith just raised more than a quarter of a million dollars on Kickstarter

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For the last many weeks, we've been covering the Kickstarter drive of Zenith, a cyberpunk MMO courting both PC and VR players. As of...

Desert Oasis: A guide to the best Mediah grindspots in Black Desert

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Of all the Desert Oasis articles I've written so far, by far the most fun I had was doing a guide for two of...
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Eternal Magic moves into open beta today – here’s the new trailer

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Good news, fans of optimization: Eternal Magic is moving into open beta today, and one of the elements that it's boasting is that it...
Nothing else has worked.

WoW Factor: No, Battle for Azeroth’s story hasn’t paid off by the end of the war campaign

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You know, I honestly had expected to do something else for WoW Factor this week, and then I was reminded that the war campaign was...

Elder Scrolls Online on the ‘class identity’ that informs its upcoming combat and balance changes

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If you're looking at the headline here and thinking oh no not class fantasy, then be aware: ZeniMax knows it's a loaded term and...
Here we go again.

Second impressions: Astellia Online’s launch version is a solidly average MMO

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So... here's the thing about Astellia Online. You remember my first impressions piece? I freely acknowledged that the game was fundamentally a fine title...

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