OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”
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The Daily Grind: What level of pay-to-win are you willing to tolerate in MMORPGs?
Friend-of-MOP Clowd over at RIFT blog The Ghar Station penned a provocative piece this week proposing for the MMORPG genre a five-tiered system for...
Vague Patch Notes: Mobile MMOs, free-to-play MMOs, and the path of microtransactions
When I first started playing Magic: the Gathering, Revised was the new hotness and I got used to the idea that Serra Angel was...
Amazon Games will publish Disruptive’s upcoming AAA online multiplayer action-adventure game
Amazon Games just announced that it's expanding its purview once again, taking on a publishing deal with indie studio Disruptive Games. Disruptive is best...
Lost Ark’s summer roadmap includes one new advanced class every two months
It's weird to consider that Lost Ark only launched less than four months ago, which feels like a lifetime somehow. Yet the team at...
Diablo Immortal launches on mobile and PC today with hellacious microtransactions
The newest entry in Blizzard's long-running Diablo series was couched in controversy literally from the first minutes that it was announced. Now, with Diablo...
Belgium and Netherlands reject Diablo Immortal over lockbox gambling concerns
This week's "global launch" of Diablo Immortal already wasn't going to be that global considering that several southeast Asia countries will have to wait...
Lost Ark is fixing the bug that makes you look at loading screens foreverrrrr
Look, Lost Ark, your loading screens are very pretty, but nobody came to play your loading screens. Unfortunately, a new bug in the game...
Diablo Immortal posts global launch schedule for next week’s debut
It's kind of wild to think that we are just a week away from Diablo Immortal actually landing on mobile devices -- and PC,...
Amazon hotfixes Lost Ark’s Destined for Destruction, offers downtime compensation
If you've been enjoying Lost Ark's newest update, good for you! If your experience has been sullied by the fact that you can't type...
Diablo Immortal plans to roll out to the rest of Asia Pacific in late June
You may have missed it in the announcement that Diablo Immortal will launch on June 2nd, but this release won't be a global rollout....
Lost Ark’s Destined for Destruction drops the Destroyer and Deskaluda
Happy patch day, Lost Ark players: Smilegate and Amazon have rolled out the May Destined for Destruction update after a bit of a snag...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 373: Bots are bad, ‘mkay?
Just and Bree discuss Lost Ark's bots, FFXIV's mods, Star Trek Online's Stormfall, Elder Scrolls Online's High Isle, and Wrath Classic beta, with adventures in LOTRO and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on Black Desert's perceived decline.
The Lost Ark Destroyer’s weapon isn’t a warhammer – it’s a minivan on a stick
If you're angling to Hulk out to Beethoven's 5th in Lost Ark, look no further than the game's new Destroyer advanced class for the...
Path of Exile pushes out balance update, pay-to-swole cosmetics
I'm gonna be honest: I thought Path of Exile's tweet about switching from pay-to-glow to pay-to-swole was just a joke. But it turns out...
Diablo III dev shares behind-the-scenes stories for its 10th anniversary
First of all, it's been 10 years since Diablo III launched on May 15th, 2012, and that makes us all so old. Second, it's...
The Stream Team: Procuring the problem pets of Path of Exile’s Sentinel
After learning about the interesting mechanics of the pets that like the mobs more than players, Massively OP's MJ has been looking forward to...
Path of Exile tunes down Sentinel’s Archnemesis mods, promises to further tweak the system’s difficulty
Path of Exile's new Sentinel update has apparently arrived with a bit of a numerical overtuning by the devs' own admission. Just a day...
The Stream Team: Finding out the fate of the feral turtle boy in Lost Ark
When MOP's Chris last streamed Lost Ark, he wandered into an island that was home to a helpful turtle who raised a young boy...
Lost Ark admits it’s been ‘fighting a war against bots’ since launch, banning millions of accounts
Have you spotted a bot or two in Lost Ark over the past few months? If so, you're definitely not alone. Amazon admitted on...
Diablo III makes the Echoing Nightmare permanent, Overwatch 2 discusses support hero adjustments
Whether you're a fan of hacking up demons in Diablo III or testing out the new PvP meta in Overwatch 2, there's some news...
