Official Site:Â Dungeons and Dragons Online
Studio:Â Standing Stone Games, formerly Turbine/WB Interactive Entertainment; published by Daybreak Game Company
Launch Date:Â February 28, 2006
Genre:Â Fantasy Themepark
Business Model:Â Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Night Revels Halloween event returns (with a pretty large bug)
If you feel a chill in the air and hear a slightly unnerving howl in the wind, you probably should close your window. Or...
Lord of the Rings Online puts a cap on embers, motes, and figments
If you are not acquainted with the Lord of the Rings Online scene these days, chances are that the headline above made about as...
The Stream Team: Completing Korthos Island on Dungeons and Dragons Online
Massively OP's MJ and her crew of adventurers have just about completed DDO's newbie island, Korthos. Another dungeon, a couple more quests, a defeated...
PSA: Get your free Dungeons and Dragons Online adventure pack
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...
The MOP Up: League of Legends’ future looks bright
Don't let games like Fortnite and Overwatch make you forget that League of Legends is still a thing. In fact, Riot Games' MOBA saw...
The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb
By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...
The Stream Team: Following the Dungeons and Dragons Online newbie campaign trail
What's life like for a newly minted DDO group? Massively OP's MJ is giving you a front row seat to see! Her group of...
Dungeons & Dragons Online launches a new MacOS client
If you're playing Dungeons & Dragons Online on an Apple desktop, you're going to need to change clients. The existing MacOS client for the systems...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 238: Ten years of free-to-play
Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Bless, Book of Travels, Star Trek Online, City of Heroes, WoW Classic & Retail, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag topics on static endgames and genre labels.
Dungeons and Dragons Online dishes out anniversary gifts
While we usually convene here at Massively OP to discuss game launch anniversaries, today we have something slightly different: the launch of a business...
Dungeons and Dragon Online pumps out a Sharn-themed adventure pack
It's Patch Day for Dungeons and Dragons Online. So what does the GM have planned for adventurers in Eberron? Why, it's a new adventure...
The Stream Team: Beginning Dungeons and Dragons Online on Korthos
As Massively OP's MJ starts regular Dungeons and Dragons nights on OPTV, she felt it was a perfect time to start DDO from the...
The Daily Grind: Which class would you just love to port from one MMO to another?
Earlier this summer, Standing Stone Game announced a brand-new and unique class for Dungeons and Dragons Online: the Alchemist. No, it's not just another...
Global Chat: MMO roleplaying explained for the rest of us
Game designer Brian Green has been on a writing streak as of late with a whole series of blog posts about roleplaying in MMORPGs....
Desert Oasis: First impressions of Black Desert on the PlayStation 4 (and the PS Vita too!)
I needed a break from Black Desert after that disappointing enchant session I recounted in the last edition of the Desert Oasis column. A few...
One Shots: My other car is a ravenous dragon
Sure, in your normal, mundane life you drive a Prius hatchback, but in your virtual existence, you enjoy a ride that's a bit more...
Massively Overthinking: Problematic faves in MMOs
A while back, a reader suggested that it was impossible for a fan who loves something to recognize its shortcomings, and I was taken...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that flirted with permadeath
This month, Dungeons and Dragons Online will be venturing where many MMORPGs have feared to tread: into the realm of officially supported permadeath. The...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 234: ArcheAge’s game changer
Justin and Bree discuss ArcheAge Unchained, WoW Classic, No Man's Sky, DDO, Neverwinter, and Elder Scrolls Online, with mailbag topics on the future of MMOs and the silent majority MMO playerbase.
The Game Archaeologist: Dungeons & Dragons
Part of the holy mission of the Game Archaeologist is to ferret out the roots of history that ultimately led to MMORPGs as we...