RvR stands for “realm vs. realm,” usually a reference to faction-based player-vs.-player warfare, and frequently (though not always) in the context of more than two realms.
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Meet Pax Dei, a well-funded open-world social sandbox built to ‘true MMO scale’
Back in 2021, we caught wind of a new Microsoft-backed MMO called Pax Dei from studio Mainframe Industries, which had been busy raising huge...
Choose My Adventure: New tutorials and old habits see Destiny 2’s hooks set in
I'm going to admit it to myself: In spite of my misgivings about what awaits me at the endgame, I can feel myself getting...
The Front is a new survival shooter coming in 2023 with 10 ‘distinct survival indices’ to track
Heads-up, folks, we got a new MMO acronym comin' in hot: survival-open-world-crafting aka SOC. Will it stick? Well, Samar Studio's new "SOC" called The...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Shadowfax server heads toward its final stretch with Minas Morgul unlock
Lord of the Rings Online's fastest progressing (and least populated) server is nearing its final months of existence, as Standing Stone Games has plans...
The Daily Grind: What’s the oldest MMO you tried super late in its lifetime?
Earlier this month, an MOP reader tweeted about trying Dark Age of Camelot for the first time in 2023 and falling in love, which...
One Shots: That moment when you missed your cruise ship’s departure
The day had started so promisingly. You had docked in a tropical port full of free-flowing wine, endless parties, numerous souvenir shops, and nary...
The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA
Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t
A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...
WoW Factor: Does World of Warcraft need more classes?
So how many classes are there in World of Warcraft? There are wrong answers, but there's more than one right answer.
If your answer was...
The Daily Grind: Do you like zerg vs. zerg PvP in MMOs?
Early on in 2023, Sandbox Interactive sent Albion Online players a detailed survey asking about their game preferences, and included within was a question...
Fight or Kite: The Witcher card game GWENT checks off a lot of the right boxes – but too many of the wrong ones
Continuing on my journey to digital card game bliss, I chose to try out a game I had mentally filed as one of the...
EVE Echoes adds customizable jumpgates, new ships, and a corporation war simulation feature
Last time we peeked in on the mobile MMO EVE Echoes, it was kicking off its own citizen scientist Project Discovery initiative to help...
Elite Dangerous seeks the ‘thoughts and feelings’ of players about the ongoing Thargoid War
How do you feel about the aliens that are attacking the galaxy of Elite: Dangerous? In a gameplay sense, not necessarily about the aliens...
Why I Play: Black Matter’s shooter Hell Let Loose scratches my RTS itch
I’ve been playing multiplayer shooters since I discovered DOOM 2’s dialup modem DOS commands, and it’s a genre I find myself returning to every...
Black Desert adds individual war rewards for console and kicks off Adventure Week on PC
Ideally, the time players spend in Black Desert on PC is already full of adventure, but that's not stopping the game from hosting an...
Aion Classic is still launching a European version in ‘early 2023’
This morning's NCsoft financials was a clear reminder that Aion Classic was one of the smartest things Aion has ever done, which is surely...
Perfect Ten: Ranking 10 MMORPG map designs from worst to best
When I was a kid, I loved poring over maps in our family's atlas when we went on road trips. Getting a kind of...
War of Dragnorox talks UE5 upgrade, monetization, and ‘dangerous’ and ‘highly intellectual’ combat
Back in December 2021, we reported on War of Dragnorox, a developing sandbox MMORPG from Triune Studios that hung its hat on having "dynamic...
WoW Factor: Blizzard’s latest earnings report was mixed news for World of Warcraft
On one level, the most interesting thing that came out of the most recent earnings call for Activision-Blizzard was how much stuff the company...
Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning grants extra PvP rewards during the Night of Murder event
The Return of Reckoning rogue server for Warhammer Online is already full of PvP, but tomorrow, February 10th, heralds the return of the Night...
