character creation
Mad World brings new website online and starts taking pre-registrations
Looking for a dark horse of an upcoming MMO that may be darker than most? Then place a chip or two down in Mad...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
Quinfall claims it’ll be ‘the biggest MMORPG universe in the world’
Don't look now, but there's a brand-new player on the MMORPG board. Welcome Turkey-based Vawraek Technology, which was founded in 2021 and is apparently...
The Stream Team: A first look at Embers Adrift for the free weekend
Free weekends are a good chance to peek into a game, and Massively OP's MJ is taking advantage of Ember's Adrift offering one this...
Ship of Heroes looks back at last year, notes creation of a Steam page and upcoming beta test registration
By all accounts, Ship of Heroes had a busy 2022 when you look over the game's retrospective blog post. The devs recount the variety...
PlanetSide 2 applies fixes for missions and Capture the Conduit, promises additional stabilization in the future
PlanetSide 2 on PC has gotten another one of those fixer-upper patches that isn't exactly sexy but is no less vital to the game's...
The Game Archaeologist: PlaneShift, the poster child of open-source MMOs
As the character creation screen fades out, a dark vista fades into being. The fledgling adventurer looks around at dim shapes and sinister movements...
Elden Ring’s Colosseum DLC is available for free today for everyone
If you love Elden Ring and also love beating the snot out of your friends, the game's newest update will provide you with everything...
LOTRO Legendarium: What class should you pick in LOTRO?
Hunter.
Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one!
What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...
Choose My Adventure: Running face-first into the brick wall that is Neocron
It's not often an MMO makes me ragequit, but hoo baby did I ever do that with Neocron.
I'll digest on why I think I...
Tree of Savior M arrives to South Korea November 2, Re: Tree of Savior cans global aspirations
This is a story of two mobile versions of the MMOARPG Tree of Savior - Tree of Savior M and Re: Tree of Savior,...
Ryzom redesigns its tutorial area to make it more player friendly
If you ever found Ryzom a bit indecipherable, it's not (just) because the MMORPG is set on an alien world. Older titles like this...
Book of Travels shows off its character creation in full in a new video
Character creation is important in any MMO, and this is especially true in the case of an open-ended and slower-paced game like Book of...
New World’s Brimstone Sands sees a peak of 65K players – and queues to match
So just how did yesterday's Brimstone Sands launch go for New World? That's what we're here to compile, but the answer to the question...
City of Heroes Homecoming has unleashed i27p5’s massive balance and powers level update
It's patch day for the Homecoming, the largest of the City of Heroes rogue servers. Issue 27, Page 5 is rolling out to the...
First impressions of Embers Adrift, the Kickstarted MMORPG once known as Saga of Lucimia
Those who know me will attest that I am not an old-school MMORPG player by heart. Every time I thought about getting into EverQuest...
Perfect Ten: Ten quirky and interesting MMOs worth trying
Quite often while I'm writing columns for Massively OP, the catalyst behind a given topic is what interests me right then -- and, I...
Dungeons and Dragons Online makes it harder to overlook class archetypes
While Dungeons and Dragons Online now offers advanced class archetypes, thanks to August's content update, apparently it was possible for players to completely overlook...
World of Warcraft Classic opens new fresh start realms, offers free transfers to relieve population crush
The chaos and crush of incoming players for Wrath Classic's prepatch has resulted in a bevy of emergency measures by Blizzard. As some servers...
Blizzard begs WoW Classic players to transfer away from queues as tech can’t resolve capacity chaos
As we've been noting for the last week, the WoW Classic Wrath of the Lich King pre-patch launch hasn't gone to plan, largely thanks...