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Club Penguin players make a game out of getting speed banned
If your MMO's overlords suddenly announced that they were going to shut down your game in a month's time, how would you spend those...
Blizzard cracks down on Overwatch aimbot cheaters
OK, cheaters, listen up. You're jerks, you're ruining the game for everyone, you're wasting developer time, which means you're wasting everyone's money, you're not...
EVE Online GMs removed at least 25 trillion ISK worth $400,000 from the game
If you've been reading the gaming news this week, you may have heard about the enormous amount of wealth that was recently removed from EVE...
Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters
This past weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. It turned out that exploiters had been using...
Pokémon Go lifts the ban on some third-party map app users
Pokémon Go has a word of warning for those players using third-party map applications: Stop or you could be banned. Niantic said that even...
Final Fantasy XIV bans more than 6,000 accounts for RMT
Making money in Final Fantasy XIV isn't necessarily easy. You have to play the free market quite a bit to acquire large amounts of...
World of Warcraft weathers roleplay and silencing controversies
All is not well following World of Warcraft's recent pre-expansion patch earlier this week. Two controversies are rocking the game resulting from the update...
World of Warcraft is introducing a silence penalty with the Legion prepatch
Hello, trade chat, my old friend; I'm turning you back on again. Because the team on World of Warcraft has addressed your issues at...
Tree of Savior re-opens its servers to new players
Earlier this month, Tree of Savior took the drastic step of removing itself from Steam and shutting the doors to any new players. This...
The Division subtracts 30,000 cheaters from its playerbase
Cheaters are not wanted in The Division. They're not wanted in any game, really, but Ubisoft is taking a harder line against cheaters by...
Overwatch racks up 7M players, bans 1500 of them
It's been a little over a week since Overwatch launched, and in that short time Blizzard's new team shooter has become a bonafide success...
The MOP Up: The future of skins in Paragon (May 29, 2016)
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...
Tree of Savior names and shames banned bots and goldsellers
We have a deeply personal question for you: Are you a bot? Because if so, you might be banned from Tree of Savior right...
Endemic cheating in CS:GO prompts record number of bans
In every competitive online game, there will always be people who are willing to cheat to get an advantage over other players and companies willing to...
WoW multibox reporter banned for ‘breaking TOS’ [Updated]
Here's an interesting tidbit: Did you know that killing one player in a PvP area in World of Warcraft can get you banned? Not...
Not So Massively: Gamers rally around Total Biscuit (October 19, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
Not So Massively: Destiny loses court case; MOBAs try new toxic chat punishments
Destiny's ex-composer Martin O'Donnell won a major court case against his former employer, giving him back shares in the company that are now worth...
Banned Cabal II gold buyers called out by GM
So here's your cautionary tale for today: If you're going to protest your innocence after being banned from an MMO, then it helps if...
Bungie promises to ban cheaters in Destiny
It's not exactly a drastic reach to say that people shouldn't cheat when playing an online game. People should definitely not be cheating during...
ArenaNet strips, kills, deletes, and bans Guild Wars 2 cheater
Today's lesson is that you shouldn't cheat in online games. Alas, a Guild Wars 2 character had to die to provide this valuable information...
