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List Of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games
This is a selected list of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs). MMORPGs are large multi-user games that take place in perpetual online worlds with a great number of other players. In most MMORPGs each player controls an Avatar (computing), avatar that interacts with other players, completes tasks to gain experience, and acquires items. MMORPGs use a Massively multiplayer online role-playing game#Business models, wide range of business models, from free of charge, free with microtransactions, advertise funded, to various kinds of payment plans. Most early MMORPGs were text-based and web browser-based, later 2D, isometric, side-scrolling and 3D games emerged, including on video game consoles and mobile phones. See also *List of massively multiplayer online games, List of MMOGs *List of free massively multiplayer online games, List of free MMOGs *List of MUDs *List of multiplayer browser games *History of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Game
A massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) is a video game that combines aspects of a role-playing video game and a massively multiplayer online game. As in role-playing games (RPGs), the player assumes the role of a Player character, character (often in a fantasy world or science-fiction world) and takes control over many of that character's actions. MMORPGs are distinguished from Online game, single-player or small Multiplayer online game, multi-player online RPGs by the number of players able to interact together, and by the game's persistent world (usually hosted by the game's video game publisher, publisher), which continues to exist and evolve while the player is offline and away from the game. MMORPGs are played throughout the world. Global revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and the western world's revenues exceeded a billion dollars in 2006. In 2008, the spending on subscription MMORPGs by consumers in North America and Europe gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Online
''Angels Online'' or ''Angel Love Online'' (''ALO''; ) is a free-to-play PC and PlayStation 3 2D massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by UserJoy Technology in Taiwan, and published by Q Entertainment. PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Smartphones ports were announced in May 2016. The Windows version was released in Taiwan in June 2006. A Japanese version of the game was released in December 2006. The PlayStation 3 version was released, on the Japanese PlayStation Store PlayStation Store (PS Store) is a digital distribution service for users of Sony's PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 game consoles via PlayStation Network. The store offers a range of downloadable content both ..., on September 25, 2008. It's free to download and uses the same pay-per-item model as its PC counterparts. Gameplay Every player starts in the Angel Lyceum, a college to train Little Angels (the players) to become Angel Protectors to guard E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Desert Online
''Black Desert Online'' () is a sandbox-oriented fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Korean video game developer Pearl Abyss and originally published for Microsoft Windows in 2015. A mobile version titled ''Black Desert Mobile'' was initially released in Asia by early 2019, and worldwide in December 2019. The Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions, known simply as ''Black Desert'', were released in 2019. The game is free-to-play in some parts of the world, but follows a buy-to-play business model in other editions, including the English-language editions. In 2018, Pearl Abyss began work on a prequel to the timeline of ''Black Desert'', titled '' Crimson Desert'', but during development it became a separate, stand alone IP with a different storyline and new characters. In 2021, Kakao Games stopped services and Pearl Abyss took back the publishing rights. Gameplay The combat in ''Black Desert Online'' is action based, requiring manual aimin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battlestar Galactica
''Battlestar Galactica'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Glen A. Larson. It began with the original television series in 1978, and was followed by a short-run sequel series, '' Galactica 1980'', a line of book adaptations, original novels, comic books, a board game, and video games. A reimagined version aired as a two-part, three-hour miniseries developed by Ronald D. Moore and David Eick in 2003, followed by a 2004 television series, which aired until 2009. A prequel series, '' Caprica'', aired in 2010. All ''Battlestar Galactica'' productions share the premise that in a distant part of the universe, a human civilization has extended to a group of planets known as the Twelve Colonies, to which they have migrated from their ancestral homeworld of Kobol. The Twelve Colonies have been engaged in a lengthy war with the Cylons, a cybernetic race whose goal is the extermination of the human species. The Cylons offer peace to the humans, which proves to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battlestar Galactica Online
''Battlestar Galactica Online'' was a browser-based massively multiplayer online game (MMO) loosely based on the 2004 television series ''Battlestar Galactica''. Released in open beta on February 8, 2011, it was developed by Bigpoint Games and Artplant using the Unity game engine for the game client in the browser. The game server was written in Erlang. In less than three months of release, the game surpassed two million registered users. Bigpoint announced in early January 2019 that the game servers would be closed at the end of the month, and the game permanently shut down in the early morning hours of February 1, 2019. Gameplay Battlestar Galactica Online was a space-based flight-combat game set in the Battlestar Galactica universe, in which the player took the role of a pilot. A player could select to be either a Colonial (human) or Cylon (cyborg) pilot upon registration, after which the player was locked into that side. Multiple log-ins were possible, allowing players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Battle Of The Immortals
''Battle of the Immortals'' was a free-to-play massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Perfect World Entertainment. Beta began on April 14, 2010, and is open to all users with a Perfect World account. On April 30, 2010, the closed beta The software release life cycle is the process of developing, testing, and distributing a software product (e.g., an operating system). It typically consists of several stages, such as pre-alpha, alpha, beta, and release candidate, before the fi ... ended and the open beta began on May 4, 2010. The Guardians of Fate was released on February 22, 2012. ''Battle of the Immortals'' takes place in Western Europe, where the player takes the role of a hero to help revive Odin. Besides, Battle of the Immortals is published by Joygame in Turkey since July, 2012. The closed Beta started on September 18, ended on October 11. The open beta which started on October 25 is still on. The game closed all its servers on January 8, 2018. The c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aura Kingdom
''Aura Kingdom'', also known as ''Fantasy Frontier Online'' () in Taiwan and Hong Kong and ''Innocent World'' in Japan, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game made by the Taiwanese game developer X-Legend. In Japan, it was originally called . After a significant update, the name was changed to . Other notable games developed by X-Legend are Grand Fantasia and Eden Eternal. Aura Kingdom was published by Aeria Games in January 2014. It is a free-to-play game that was announced on August 12, 2013 at Otakon Otakon ( ) is an annual three-day anime convention held during July/August. From 1999 to 2016, it took place at the Baltimore Convention Center in Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland's Inner Harbor district; in 2017, it moved to the Walter E. Washing ... 2013. Attendees at Otakon were given beta keys for the MMO. Gameplay The game begins by villagers asking the player to help with tasks around the village. Players take on the role of Envoys of Gaia, who they are ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantica Online
''Atlantica Online'' is a free-to-play (F2P) 3D computer graphics, 3D Tactical role-playing game, tactical massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by NDOORS Corporation. The game is currently published bValofe The game's primary setting is a fantasy fiction, fantasy-themed alternate history Earth composed of a diverse blend of historical, cultural, Allegory, allegorical, and Mythology, mythological elements. The game world is primarily modeled after real-world geography with accessible locations on six of the seven continents as well as the mythical floating continent of Atlantis from which the game's name is derived. Gameplay ''Atlantica Online'' is a turn-based tactical MMORPG in which the player primarily assumes the role of a descendant of the Atlantean people. The primary goal of the game is to search for your ancestral home to save the world from the effects of Oriharukon, a substance created by the ancient Atlanteans. The player's journey spans t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astonia III
''Astonia III'' was a fantasy MMORPG video game that was initially released in September 2001. It was developed as a solo project by German programmer Daniel Brockhaus as a sequel to his earlier project, a smaller MMORPG called ''Mercenaries of Astonia''. At the end of the year, ''Astonia III'' launched into a full release, and started to charge players a monthly subscription fee, with one-month free trial. In late 2014, the game's official servers were shut down, and its source code was released online by Brockhaus. History In December 1998, a programmer by the name of Daniel Brockhaus had created a small MMORPG titled ''Mercenaries of Astonia''. It was only able to support up to 100 people at a time, and was not intended to be a commercial release; rather, it was to be a hobby project. Due to the growing popularity and Brockhaus wanting to expand, he decided to create a new game, titled ''Astonia III''. Although servers were left online for ''Mercenaries of Astonia'', players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashes Of Creation
''Ashes of Creation'' is an upcoming sandbox massively multiplayer online role-playing game being developed and published by Intrepid Studios. It was announced in 2016 and gained recognition by hosting a Kickstarter campaign, meeting its goal of $750,000 in under 12 hours and eventually raising over $3 million. It features a dynamic system of world building, where players' actions directly contribute to the layout of the game world. Gameplay In ''Ashes of Creation'' players can pick from a range of races and classes. Initially, the player creates their character and picks one of the nine races. These consist of Kaelar or Vaelune Human, Empyrean or Py'rai Elf, Ren'kai or Vek Orc, Dünir or Niküa Dwarf, and the Tulnar. The players will also pick one of the eight primary archetypes which consist of Tank, Cleric, Mage, Fighter, Rogue, Ranger, Bard, and Summoner. Upon reaching level 25, the player can pick a secondary archetype from the initial list creating a combination of 64 po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asheron's Call 2
''Asheron's Call 2: Fallen Kings'' was a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows which was released on November 22, 2002 and shut down on December 30, 2005 before it was relaunched as a beta for active ''Asheron's Call'' subscribers between 2012 and 2017. It is a sequel to 1999's ''Asheron's Call'', although content, graphics and gameplay dynamics differed greatly from its predecessor. Both games were developed by Turbine Entertainment Software and originally published by Microsoft Game Studios, until Turbine purchased the ''Asheron's Call'' intellectual property in December 2003. The Microsoft-to-Turbine transition was completed in 2005. In 2004 and 2005, Turbine entered business arrangements with Jolt Online Gaming to operate ''Asheron's Call 2'' in Europe and with Sony Online Entertainment to distribute the game's first expansion, ''Asheron's Call 2: Legions'', under the Station Publishing label. The original ''Asheron's Call'' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asheron's Call
''Asheron's Call'' (AC) is a discontinued fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) for Microsoft Windows PCs, developed and published by Turbine Entertainment Software. Though it was developed by the Turbine team (with Microsoft's extensive assistance), it was published as a Microsoft title until 2004. The game was set on the island continent of Dereth and several surrounding smaller islands and archipelagos on the fictional planet of Auberean. The game was played in a large seamless 3D virtual world which could host thousands of players' characters (or avatars) at a time. Released on November 2, 1999, it was the third major MMORPG to be released, and was developed at the same time as those earlier games: '' Ultima Online'' and ''EverQuest''.Grossman 2003, p. 299 After initial success, its subscription numbers dropped as newer MMORPGs moved into the market. Its host servers remained online for over 17 years after the game's original launch. ''Asheron's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
