Generally used to describe MMOs from before World of Warcraft’s launch in 2004, though sometimes shortened to describe just the first few MMOs launched prior to 2000.
classic mmo
The MOP Up: Villagers and Heroes celebrates 11 years on Steam
A very happy birthday to Villagers and Heroes, an underrated MMORPG that's pushing 14 years old - 11 of them on Steam: "Throwback to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs have the best combat sound design?
Way back when I first dipped into MMOs with Anarchy Online, I remember being vastly underwhelmed by the lackluster sound design of that game's...
Perfect Ten: Early versions of MMOs that were rougher than you remember
Despite our nostalgia goggles and cries for legacy versions of MMORPGs, the real truth is that most 1.0 versions of our online games were...
Jagex’s new co-op survival game RuneScape Dragonwilds just hit early access
And just like that, RuneScape Dragonwilds hit early access! It turns out when Jagex said early access was coming this spring, it meant right...
RuneScape opens the Blooming Burrow, preps a Dragonwilds stream, and adds a duck quest
Most of the time when RuneScape puts out its weekly newsletter, we tend to focus more on the content additions and patch notes and...
RuneScape is reopening its Easter-soaked Blooming Burrow event area April 14
If pastel hues, smiling bunnies, and Easter fun times make you unconscionably furious, then you are warned to stay away from RuneScape between April...
Ultima Online’s second update for New Legacy is here with new tameables and the Forsaken Bloodline dungeon
Broadsword hasn't been overly chatty about Ultima Online's New Legacy alternative ruleset server since it launched last fall, but the studio has been busy...
Massively Overthinking: The one about open-world randos in MMOs
MOP's Chris is fast becoming my muse: It was his remark about Marvel Heroes that inspired this week's Massively Overthinking.
"Some of the best fun...
Casually Classic: How Burning Crusade brought us some of WoW’s best starting zones
There's certainly been a rise of chatter among the WoW Classic community these days regarding The Burning Crusade. This is partially because of a...
Survival Kids is a new Switch 2 survivalbox with callbacks to a 1999 Game Boy Color title
Last week's Nintendo Direct has another offering that might appeal to some MMO players, especially MMO players with littles: Konami and Unity are apparently...
RuneScape releases the Pharaoh’s Folly quest, Old School RuneScape discusses Sailing alpha
It's time once again for RuneScape players to return to the desert and head towards the finale of a quest line that's been ongoing...
The Daily Grind: What’s a classic MMO problem you wish the genre had solved a different way?
A while back, I was reading a thread on Reddit when a player managed to sum up nearly three decades of the push-pull of...
Design Mockument: Which of the healthiest 2025 MMORPGs have space for a sequel?
Every year, Justin and I write all of our End-of-Year Eleven posts, and every year one of those is for the healthiest games going...
The Daily Grind: How often do you do blind runs of new MMORPG content?
Last year, in response to a Daily Grind question about MMO new-content traditions, an MOP reader named Kelly said her tradition was to do...
Massively Overthinking: The things that broke us from old beloved MMORPGs
Last week, MOP's Chris and I were discussing his husband's obsession with Sea of Thieves; he runs with a set crew that generally leaves...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 512: Equinox Homecoming is not horsing around
Justin and Bree discuss the new horse mystery MMO Equinox Homecoming, the reveal of RuneScape Dragonwilds, Stars Reach's Kickstarted, FFXIV's Seekers of Eternity, and Black Desert's console sunset/upgrade, and LOTRO's housing rush, with adventures in LOTRO and World of Warcraft, plus a mailbag topic on frugal gaming.
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can actually afford to buy eggs
I don't know about you folks, but eggs are a staple protein in my household, and these past months watching egg prices soar upward...
RuneScape Dragonwilds is Jagex’s new co-op survival game, coming to early access this spring
Jagex has officially announced another game in the RuneScape franchise: RuneScape Dragonwilds. Before you get too excited, it's not a new MMORPG; it's an...
RuneScape prepares a possible April Fools’ Day tease regarding mounts and its next major quest
April Fools' Day is apparently coming early to RuneScape as the MMORPG's weekly newsletter is promising mounts to players that will likely not exist...
MMO Hype Train: Is there any hope – or hype – left for Camelot Unchained?
If there's any developer alive who knows realm-vs-realm MMO design better than Mark Jacobs, I haven't met him or her. Jacobs and Mythic Entertainment...
