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Easy come, easy go: Just two months after Defiance added a game-wide auction house, the title is now removing it entirely. According to Trion Worlds, the decision was made after the auction house's wide-scale release caused massive instability and couldn't be remedied.  "We have tried multiple approaches and have been unable to resolve the core issues surrounding stability, due to...

Whether I've consciously realized it or not, I've been a PvPer since my first FFA PvP sandbox, Ultima Online, in 1997. Since then, I've done factional PvP. I've done RvR. I've done the weird hybrid thing that was Star Wars Galaxies TEF-based PvP (and it was the most rewarding, for the record). I have purchased and Kickstarted PvP-centric games. If...

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! World of Warcraft fans of every stripe rejoiced to see the Legion pre-pre-patch drop this week: tmog junkies, lore junkies, animation junkies, website junkies, nostalgia junkies. Well maybe not this guy; maybe he's still pissed about totems. And...

In the latest Massively Overthinking article, our Patreon patron Duane got us thinking about whether the golden age of the MMO industry has passed or MMOs are actually in a better position today than they've ever been. Today's MMO market is certainly a lot more crowded than the relatively quiet one that EVE Online first released into back in 2003, lending gamers considerably more options for the...

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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. Seen any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...

Ultima Online's latest newsletter is short and sweet: Broadsword Producer Bonnie "Mesanna" Armstrong confirms that the team is still working on Publish 94, shooting for the end of August, though what's included now is limited to weapon special tweaks. She also teases the return of the Treasure of Tokuno/Doom event, which will this year take place in Kotl City...

Black Desert players are on fire over the new subscription value pack. Well not literally on fire, but damn close. MOP reader Sally pointed us to threads on the MMORPG and Black Desert Reddit subs, where players are feverishly debating P2W in the game yet again. When we wrote our post on the new packs earlier this week, I thought...

Cryptic's been adding new content so regularly to Neverwinter that what was one a 14-page adventure booklet is now a mighty campaign tome large enough to keep players busy for a very long time. This tome is about to get even larger with the imminent advent of the Storm King's Thunder module, which will contain a three-part campaign with plenty...

As cool and iconic that Star Trek ships look, I've always thought they also came across as fragile, with pieces sticking out here and there. Plenty of opportunity for some star god to play around with the Enterprise and accidentally snap off a nacelle or let the ship tip over when he has to go to the bathroom. Today's headlining...

When I first started playing Warhammer Online as part of Choose My Adventure ages ago, I had a lot of fun. Until I leveled out of the unlimited free trial, anyway. That's when the game went from a series of pitched PvP battles to being nothing more than a series of mobs roaming about, cycling through fixed PvP battlefields...