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]

You all just hate me because you don't like me and I'm mean all the time.

Another World of Warcraft: Shadowlands encrypted alpha build is out now

9
When is the start of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands testing? Well, on a small scale it seems to have already happened, since the latest encrypted...

Perfect Ten: Pet peeves of doing MMO journalism

38
In many ways, Massively Overpowered is a dream (side) job for us. We get to write about something we love and have it published...

Lord of the Rings Online introduces a new raid and several class adjustments in its latest update

2
Hope you're up on your Sindarin, because the latest content update for Lord of the Rings Online has a whole mess of it. Specifically,...

Tamriel Infinium: The lore behind The Elder Scrolls Online’s Falmer

0
If you’ve played through the Elder Scrolls series, particularly The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, you’ve no doubt encountered a bleached-skin underground foe more akin...

The coronavirus has shut down another six gaming and tech events

24
Another day, another round of gaming and tech event cancellations over growing fears of the spreading coronavirus. Epic Games, which had already exited GDC even...
I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME, WE'RE A CROSS-PLAY FAMILY

Black Desert patches in crossplay for both Xbox One and PlayStation 4

6
If you were hoping that today's crossplay patch for Black Desert would allow all platforms to group together under one banner, you would be wrong......
Are we shut down yet?

Shroud of the Avatar croons over its Bardic skill tree

10
If you know anything about us here at Massively OP, it's that any news of Bards being added to MMOs brings the most beautiful...
Ah... huh.

The Daily Grind: Are you a Jumpy McJumperson in MMOs?

50
When you were young, you found your purpose with the spacebar of your computer keyboard. Suddenly, your characters were slipping the surly bonds of...

The Stream Team: A Black Desert birthday

0
What? You want more reasons to party? Well Black Desert brings you its fourth birthday! And Massively OP's MJ thinks that's reason enough. Even...

Ultima Online adds barrel punching to house decay, Dark Age of Camelot answers a grab bag of questions

0
For those MMORPG players who like their games a bit more old school, there's some new updates coming out of Ultima Online and Dark...
North north north.

Black Desert Mobile adds in the North Mediah region

0
If you're going on a trip, you can bring Black Desert Mobile with you... and perhaps ironically, the game itself is bringing you on a trip...

TERA announces Kaia’s Anvil for PC in March, drops Forsaken Island and auto-fishing for console

2
TERA fans on PC are getting new dungeons and new rewards for running them with En Masse's March content update. "Kaia’s Anvil’ will launch in...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 261: PAX yay, GDC nay

0
Justin and Bree discuss PAX East, GDC, the coronavirus' impact on gaming, Magic Legends, Population Zero, Marvel Future Revolution, LOTRO and DDO, Funcom and Dune, and City of Heroes, plus adventures in AQ3D, CoH, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on everything MMOs and the doom of WildStar.

Star Wars Galaxies Legends celebrates four years online, teases next year’s goodies

3
Happy fourth birthday, Star Wars Galaxies Legends! The most popular NGE rogue server for SWG has been marking its fourth anniversary with a new...
Fan favoritism

Star Trek Online Legacy and Measure of Mortality arrive for consoles today

6
Console players of Star Trek Online are finally catching up with their PC compariots today as the Legacy update has gone live on on...

Black Desert’s ominous O’dylitta update is launching ‘later this year’

6
Remember back at E3 and Heidel Ball last year, when in the midst of the hoopla around Black Desert's Shai and Great Expedition expansion...
Accomplish.

Guild Wars 2’s Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire content lands March 17 – here’s the trailer

15
During PAX East this year, Guild Wars 2 may not have been granting interviews or talking to media about the state of the game,...

Choose My Adventure: Black Desert should have gotten MMO of the Year

56
I can admit when I'm wrong. It happens often enough, that's for damn sure, and part of learning from a mistake is admitting that...

ArcheAge’s Treacherous Tides is live with a new ocean raid boss and Swiftblade ancestral skills

0
RIFT's ninth birthday may have come and gone without so much as a whisper from Gamigo this past weekend, but ArcheAge is still getting...
Cool times.

City of Heroes Homecoming players have racked up over 47 million hours

7
You know the old adage that superheroes and statistics go together like... well, nothing? That is, unless you're a stat-themed crusader. Actuarial Man or...