MMORPG

MMORPGs are massively multiplayer online roleplaying games, our core focus here on Massively OP. MMORPGs are traditionally differentiated from mere multiplayer games by their persistent worlds, massive playerbases and/or servers, customizable character development, and always-online status. [Follow the MMORPG category’s RSS feed]

The Stream Team: Mini Mo Mania for the 9th MOPiversary

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How long is nine years? Measured from your Daily Grind wishes to a pirate's week in review, it's how long Massively OP has been...

MapleStory’s Strawberry Farm Festival is the most spring thing you can do this winter

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Just because there are arctic blasts, frost on the trees, and mysterious frozen white powder falling from the sky doesn't mean that you can't...
Come on, my dudes.

Albion Online tweaks staffs, temp-disables duels, readies Turkish and Arabic language support

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It has been a busy couple of weeks in the world of Albion Online as Sandbox Interactive has been putting out patches, dealing with...

RuneScape adds a new quest and a flash event, Old School RuneScape finishes Poll 80 updates

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Are you among those in RuneScape who are hoping to face off against the Wildywyrm monster more frequently? Then you're probably happy to note...

New World’s Season of the Guardian teases new trial, cooking revamp, animation buffs, and OPR mounts

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Amazon has taken the veil off New World's Season of the Guardian this afternoon, and it sounds as if it'll have a little bit...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s latest U66 test includes tumbling and two more dungeons

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The next round of testing for Dungeons and Dragons Online's Update 66 is underway and features two new dungeons and a fun "experimental feature." The...
Trans rights city.

Wisdom of Nym: What the hey is up with Final Fantasy XIV’s Xbox pricing?

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In another theoretical timeline, there's a place where Final Fantasy XIV really would have stepped in it when it subtly noted that the game's...

You can now buy River Hobbits in Lord of the Rings Online with store currency

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Even with Update 39 undergoing testing on Lord of the Rings Online's Bullroarer server, things are pretty quiet for our favorite Middle-earth MMO right...

NCsoft updates EULAs for Lineage II, Aion, and Blade & Soul as part of move to Purple

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At the top of February we reported on NCsoft's decision to migrate many of its MMOs to its bespoke Purple platform, specifically affecting Blade...

Monsters & Memories shares video footage from its recent ‘Biome Jam’ art dev test

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Earlier this month, Monsters & Memories developer Niche Worlds Cult talked up an art test known as a Biome Jam, which was intended to...

Magic to Master goes crypto, ties down a publisher, and eyes a nebulous February early access release window

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With all of the loud goose honking that came out of the gaming industry in 2023, it would be understandably easy to have forgotten...

Daybreak’s DC Universe Online studio Dimensional Ink is the latest games team hit with layoffs

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The culling of games industry employees continues through the beginning of this year: A list compiled by Kotaku that outlines the over 6,400 layoffs...

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMORPG you think shouldn’t be classified as an MMORPG?

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We have the MMORPG subreddit to thank for this morning's Daily Grind: At the beginning of January, some bright spark over there posted a...

MMO Week in Review: Skull & Bones departs drydock

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Skull & Bones finally drifted into its soft launch open beta after eleventy billion delays and do-overs, and... it's actually not terrible? And it's...

The MOP Up: Fae Farm launches a free demo

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Was Fae Farm too rich for you blood? Now you can check it out for free on Nintendo Switch or PC thanks to a...

The Stream Team: Finishing a friend’s run of Final Fantasy XIV’s Pandaemonium

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This Eorzea Sunday sees MOP's Chris, his husband Jamie, and their friend Ollie wrap up the Final Fantasy XIV Pandaemonium raids! It's four more...

One Shots: Sky control to Major Tom

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I have to imagine that there's no more stressful job in a galaxy far, far away than being an air traffic controller for Coruscant....
Huh.

The Daily Grind: Are there MMO systems you long ago gave up on understanding?

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"I do not understand how Ninja is supposed to be played," he said, "and at this point I have given up on understanding it."...

LOTRO Legendarium: How to walk away from LOTRO (for a while)

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Even when you love an MMORPG a whole lot, it's rarely feasible to play it as steadily and at the same intensity over the...

Chronicles of Elyria claims that over 90% of fans still want the MMO

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As the saying goes, those who can't make MMOs, talk about MMOs. And so it is with Chronicles of Elyria's Soulbound Studio, which is...

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