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It’s time for our MeinMMO format “MMORPG News in 5 Minutes.” We summarize the most important news about the best genre in the world. You can expect bare truths, fast servers, and important dates!

Highlights of the week:

For Black Desert, Season V has started this week, with new servers promising fast progress and special rewards, achievements, and quests. You can find all the details about the season on playblackdesert.com. Black Desert has been captivating players for many years with its beautiful game world and the best action combat system in the MMORPG genre.
The developers of The Lord of the Rings Online have announced their new expansion “Kingdoms of Harad”. There are many new content pieces for veterans and a promise for your characters.
No microtransactions, no in-game shop, no expensive deluxe packages, and no paid DLCs. That’s the promise of the new MMORPG Ship of Heroes on Steam, which revives an old-school payment model. This plan is not well-received by all genre fans. Unfortunately, the launch was indeed the feared crash landing: The reviews are as disastrous as the player numbers are low.
In WoW, many dates are coming up: The Brewfest has started, fans of Mists of Pandaria Classic can look forward to the Landing update, and on October 1st, a new Twitch Drop (a Baby Fel Lord) and a Deep Dive into the Midnight expansion await you. You can find all the details on blizzard.com.

What else has happened? Much more important this week has been the question of what will happen soon! While the new releases for the MMORPG genre disappoint, some of the established online RPGs are preparing for the hottest month of the year 2025: October will be THE big highlight in an otherwise very weak MMORPG year 2025.

For the new expansion of The Lord of the Rings Online, there is currently only a first teaser trailer:

Beer and Breasts – the Brewfest Disturbs

This is what happened in the major MMORPGs:

World of Warcraft delivers disturbing images this week. Because new items make your character naked. And really naked.
Even just before the launch of WoW Legion Remix, there are still heated discussions. Because there’s a feature missing that some desperately want. By the way: Those who want the best equipment can take a shortcut in World of Warcraft Legion Remix. But it’s brutally hard.
In Europe and America, a dry spell might be on the horizon for WoW fans. Because WoW Classic is focusing on China for the time being.
The “OnlyFangs” streamer group has strongly pushed World of Warcraft on Twitch throughout the duration of the project. The German Twitch streamer Papaplatte wants to follow in their footsteps and plans a project for 2026. HandOfBlood, however, is not convinced by the idea.
A small but important detail is driving some World of Warcraft fans crazy. Because your character has a bald head, although they shouldn’t have one.
Toxic behavior and friendly silliness are closely related in World of Warcraft. It could be so easy, as a comic showed this week.
PvP in World of Warcraft can be a challenging thing. Especially in retail WoW, it’s often hard to find your footing.
With the big update Solisium’s Awakening, the developers of Throne and Liberty brought a series of innovations to the game. However, the returnees are annoyed because they cannot utilize one of the new features.
This new patch for Throne and Liberty on September 25 brought a wave of bug fixes and quality improvements. You can find the German patch notes on playthroneandliberty.com.
Looking forward to the upcoming season, the developers have released a preview of the Outpost Storm map Calomel Tower. Where? On newworld.com.

By the way, the developers of Black Desert revealed the release date of Crimson Desert with the following trailer:

Crimson Desert reveals the release date in the new trailer

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This is what happened in the smaller MMORPGs:

How long does it take to walk through the Middle-earth version of The Lord of the Rings Online? A player has just found that out and highlighted one of the game’s greatest strengths.
In our “Ranking of Shame,” 4Story: The Original ended up in an embarrassing first place as the worst new MMORPG of 2025. Now it seems there may be consequences: The game has not been available on Steam in Germany for days.
The new head of RuneScape spoke about the future of the MMORPG in an interview and explained why he wants to initially forgo money in order to save the MMORPG in the future.
The fan project “The Heroes Journey” is apparently infringing intellectual property through its existence and causing irreparable damage. Therefore, the company behind EverQuest has sued the operators of the private server. A ruling was made this week.
In the latest developer update, the developers of Mortal Online II presented plans for upcoming improvements. Among other things, revisions of the banking system and way shrines are on the agenda. You can find the details on mortalonline2.com.
Embers Adrift is revamping the experience for new players and preparing for the celebrations of its 3rd anniversary. What is planned and how entry will be improved is revealed in the patch notes on Steam.
On September 23, a new content pack for DC Universe Online was released. Chapter 3 of Light and Rain: Raging Night brings a new area, missions, raid, alert content, and solo challenges. You can find the details on dcuniverseonline.com.
Also on September 23, the new story chapter of Star Trek Online titled Unleashed launched on PC. Console players have to wait until November 11. What the chapter brings can be found on playstartrekonline.com. Spoiler: There’s a reunion with Hugh and Seven of Nine.

This is what happened in the MMORPGs in development:

The developers of Chrono Odyssey are apparently constantly being asked when the next updates and news about the highly anticipated MMORPG will come. This has now led them to provoke several official posts that come off as somewhat awkward.
A new update for BitCraft Online was released on September 25. Featuring: a new Tier-1 dungeon, improvements for hunting, and more. You can find the patch notes on Steam.
The developers of Pax Dei have released the next update for their sandbox MMORPG. Among other things, there were changes to the properties and related tokens, tutorial improvements, and optimizations for performance, character creation, the building system, and the UI. You can find the patch notes on playpaxdei.com.

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