MMO Week in Review: Your new cottage in Daggerfall (December 11, 2016)

    
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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!

Elder Scrolls Online dominated the headlines this week for two key reasons: an exciting infodump on its upcoming housing system and criticism over its newly introduced lockboxes. In our own CMA column, which this month covers ESO, we’re also playing through some of this year’s DLC and seeing how it all feels at the end of 2016.

Meanwhile, we were introduced to brand-new MMORPG Ashes of Creation, confirmed that Daybreak does indeed have a new head honcho, and caught wind of the rumor that CCP Games is on the market.

Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions.

THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
SWTOR nerfs command XP after community farms mobs - [AL:TOR]The new galactic command endgame system that arrived in last week's SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne has been steeped in controversy ever since its announcement. The system is taking…
China is cracking down on MMORPG lockbox vendors - Violently authoritarian government regulates nasty video gaming monetization exploit, and gamers are cheering? Yep, China is cracking down on lockboxes. A notice from the creepy Ministry of Cultural Information announces that online game…
Obsidian’s Armored Warfare team hit with layoffs - Obsidian Entertainment has announced layoffs for an unknown number of staffers working on military MMO Armored Warfare. Gamasutra reports that the cuts are planned to "take effect early next year,"…
Skyforge delays political system indefinitely - [AL:Sky]In a calendar year dominated by politics, one game is putting a hard stop to its own election process. Today, Skyforge announced that its in-development political system, the Council of…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.

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