gankbox

Gankboxes are sandboxes that place such an emphasis on unrestricted free-for-all PvP that ganking comes to dominate the entire game, to the detriment of the rest of the world design.

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Massively Overthinking: How do you maintain your health while binging MMORPGs?

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Kotaku put out a piece this week on how to game without wrecking your body, something that's probably bound to come up in the...

Amazon Game Studios picks up former Daybreak CM Greg Henninger

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Daybreak's loss is Amazon's gain -- again. Former H1Z1 Community Manager Greg Henninger revealed that he has jumped ship from Daybreak over to Amazon Games...

GDC 2018: How to get exploiters to happily surrender in EVE Online

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EVE Online is not known for being a happy place. It's shown even in mass media as a cutthroat world of war and theft. Dealing...

EVE Evolved: Get ready for EVE Fanfest 2018!

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There's just a week and a half to go before EVE Fanfest 2018, the biggest event in the EVE Online social calendar. The event kicks...

The MMO Book Club introduces the good kind of lootboxes

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Not quite a year ago, we covered a brand-new MMO community called the MMO Book Club, whose goal was to bring MMO players together...

Darkfall: Rise of Agon pushes out market system patch

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If the economy is the lifeblood of an MMORPG, then Darkfall: Rise of Agon predicts a healthy prognosis with its new market system patch. The...

H1Z1 adds duos to auto royale, sees playerbase surge since free-to-play

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It may be way down in players since last summer's peak, but Daybreak isn't giving up on H1Z1. The newly rebranded, newly launched, and...

MMO Mechanics: The Fair Play Alliance and mechanising fairness

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News of over 30 gaming companies taking a united stand against unfairness and toxicity in online game communities sprung out of GDC 2018 a...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

MMO studios form Justice League-style alliance to combat toxicity

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After years of trying to crack the serious issue of negative behavior and toxicity among their individual communities, 30 game studios and industry leaders are...

EVE Online pumps out quality-of-life patch, starts taking CSM applications

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The skies are crowded with activity in EVE Online as of late. CCP came out this week to talk about many of the "little...

EVE Evolved: What pushes EVE Online players to breaking point?

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How many times have you read the comments on an EVE Online article and found someone talking about an experience they had that turned...

The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Romantic?

EVE Online, Star Trek Online, and Elite Dangerous players memorialize physicist Stephen Hawking

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Multiple MMORPG communities are celebrating the life of internationally renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, who passed away earlier this week. In EVE Online, players came together...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 161: Project power

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Justin and Bree discuss RIFT Prime, Trove, Project C, Project Gorgon, H1Z1, The Division 2, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on mimicking Minecraft's business model and playing the good stuff while you still can.
IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET

Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?

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This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play

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Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s March balance update has players excited

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The EVE Online community came down pretty hard on CCP Games at the start of the year, with podcasts, blogs, and the Council of...

Wouldn’t it be great if every MMORPG emulated Darkfall New Dawn’s epic roadmap

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Even if you're not a Darkfall fan or Darkfall New Dawn player, you should take a peek at the incredible roadmap Ub3rgames has posted....

Massively Overthinking: MMOs belong in a museum!

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Let's talk game preservation. We've been covering MADE's attempt to convince the government to tweak its interpretation of the DMCA to basically allow museums,...

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