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  • Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s secret weapon is strong class identity
  • MapleStory shares a college-themed 21st anniversary event, Classic World testing earns mixed initial reception
  • Casually Classic: Six ideas that WoW Classic Plus should totally ‘borrow’ from Turtle WoW

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Casually Classic: WoW Classic’s secret weapon is strong class identity

Following World of Warcraft’s meteoric rise in the early 2000s, there was no end to the analysis of why this particular MMORPG became the king of the hill and captured the attentio...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

MapleStory shares a college-themed 21st anniversary event, Classic World testing earns mixed initial reception

Depending on who you ask, the testing for MapleStory Classic World that kicked off last week is either the greatest thing since the toaster or the worst thing since burnt toast. Th...

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massivelyop.com /4 weeks ago

Casually Classic: Six ideas that WoW Classic Plus should totally ‘borrow’ from Turtle WoW

As the saying goes, “The turtle has gone off into the sea.” And so it goes for Turtle WoW, the famous and infamous WoW Classic emulator that drew in thousands of players, became qu...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Perfect Ten: Old MMORPGs we used to talk about all the time but aren’t mentioned today

We’ve been covering MMORPGs here at MassivelyOP and Massively-that-was for a very long time. So you can imagine that there have been many seasons when a game is in favor, with acti...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Here’s how indie MMO Profane is trying to revive Ultima Online’s ‘hardcore, vanilla experience’

It’s been a hot minute since we saw an MMORPG make a direct call back to Ultima Online, though a few years ago, it seemed like something kind of a lot of indies and PvP MMORPGs wer...

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comicbook.com /1 month ago

Beloved Fantasy MMO Palia Reveals First Look at Its Biggest Free Expansion Yet

Image courtesy of Singularity 6 One thing that can really make or break an MMO is its player base. Of course, with “massively multiplayer” right in the name, that’s not exactly a...

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mmobomb.com /2 days ago

Ragnarok Origin Classic Brings Back Fair MMORPG Gameplay and CBT Opens June 4

If you played Ragnarok Online back in the day, Ragnarok Origin Classic was built for you

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that indulge in character multiclassing and subclassing

With both the recently revealed EverQuest Legends and Hollowed Oath making multiclassing a core feature of their game designs, it seemed like the perfect time to look around the re...

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massivelyop.com /4 weeks ago

A 2004 MUD themed around Tron just surged past 100,000 daily players

They say that everything old is new again, and that may indeed be the case for an old text-based online RPG. We’re referring to TORN, a MUD released in 2004 that’s themed around th...

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massivelyop.com /1 week ago

20-year-old Taiwanese MMO Angels Online is getting a global reboot this summer

If adorable classic isometric MMORPGs are your jam, point your eyeballs over at Angels Online this morning, as the 20-year-old IP is getting a refreshed MMORPG international entry....

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wnynewsnow.com /5 days ago

How Silkroad Online Keeps the Spirit of Old School MMORPGs Alive

Embracing a 7th Century Chinese Theme Silkroad Online stands out with its unique setting. Instead of the usual European medieval fantasy, it plunges players into a vibrant 7th-cent...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Solo MMO sim Erenshor celebrates first birthday by teasing simulated MMO raids

We’ve had a long run of single-player games that are openly inspired by MMORPG mechanics, but one of the first to really blow up in recent years and actually capture MMORPG players...

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massivelyop.com /2 weeks ago

The Daily Grind: Which MMO feature is legitimately a ‘You think you do, but you don’t’ feature?

It seems wild to think about it now, but Blizzard went through a long period of time when it categorically refused to contemplate a WoW Classic option because the devs genuinely be...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

MMO Hype Train: EverQuest Legends, Hollowed Oath, and plundering the MMO past for its future

Can we reflect for a moment how really odd the MMORPG genre is? The extraordinary lifespan of some of these online titles gives us a conduit to revisit the past and even game in th...

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mmohuts.com /3 days ago

MapleStory Classic World Test Stats Show Magicians on Top, Another Test Planned

Nexon has shared a post-test breakdown for the recent MapleStory Classic World Closed Online Test, and players got a lot done in a short window. According to the official post, The...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Fight or Kite: Kakele Online is a fast-paced MMO drawing inspiration from 16-bit RPGs of old

I’ve been playing RPGs and video games as far back as I can remember. Just like I’m sure so many of you, I cut my teeth on the NES and games like Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Dragon W...

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rockpapershotgun.com /2 weeks ago

For its 24th anniversary, Final Fantasy 11 is getting a free trial upgrade that lets you play it for as long as you like

Final Fantasy 11 is the MMO that just keeps on ticking. It's the game's 24th anniversary today, which still isn't old enough to make it the longest running MMO, but does make it ol...

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massivelyop.com /2 days ago

Classic EverQuest has officially opened Frostreaver, the progression server you voted on

Classic EverQuest is no stranger to progression servers – what Daybreak calls time-locked progression servers – and usually, they propel the antique MMORPG back into the limelight...

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massivelyop.com /3 days ago

Monsters & Memories offers a deep dive on its magical and mystical Wizard class

Is there anything more quintessential to the throwback MMO experience than the conjurer of cheap expensive tricks who wields devastating magic against his or her foes? Upcoming ind...

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eurogamer.net /1 month ago

The Division was originally a World of Warcraft style MMO, but "that skill component wasn't there",  says Massive Entert...

Massive Entertainment has revealed that at one point in development, The Division was a World of Warcraft style MMORPG with a hotbar and dog companion, before transforming into the...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

15-year-old MMORPG Spiral Knights just got a ‘major update’ with a FFA PvP mode and a level editor

I actually rubbed my eyes this morning when I saw on Reddit a claim that cutesy free-to-play MMO Spiral Knights had actually gotten an update. It’s been absolutely ages since we go...

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massivelyop.com /4 days ago

The Daily Grind: What deleted skill or class system in MMORPGs do you still miss?

MOP’s Carlo was getting all nostalgic about a long-deleted skill in Final Fantasy XIV in our work chat not that long ago. “Back in the day, there were some fun little nuances in ta...

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massivelyop.com /3 weeks ago

Monsters & Memories promises to make classes with ‘distinct identity’ that are ‘genuinely fun to play’

Alts notwithstanding, choosing the right class for your MMORPG travels is easily one of the biggest decisions out there. So it will certainly be for throwback sandbox Monsters &amp...

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massivelyop.com /1 month ago

Classic MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot is lifting a bunch of restrictions on free-to-play accounts in its latest update

If you just saw the patch notes for Dark Age of Camelot this week and didn’t read closely or know the lingo, you’d miss some pretty big stuff, as Broadsword is clearly making a pus...

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