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EVE Online is planning to weaken Force Auxiliaries
It's just too easy for Force Auxiliaries to heal other ships right now in EVE Online. That's the reason behind the balance proposal put...
Blade & Soul buffs up its subscription benefits in its False Idols update
It's always a great feeling when you get a good bang for your buck. While Blade and Soul isn't changing the cost of its...
Sea of Thieves’ devs have realized that community comes from not constantly fighting each other
Hey, kids, did you know that players feel more like a community when they're working together rather than constantly fighting one another? Of course...
EVE Online has banned almost 20,000 accounts since February for botting and RMT
Y'all remember the wild mess in EVE Online last winter and spring, when CCP Games said it was "coming for the bots" and getting...
The Daily Grind: How should MMO studios handle game reboots?
Over the past several years, we have witnessed several MMOs being rebooted and relaunched, including Final Fantasy XIV, Secret World Legends, and, most recently,...
Overwatch’s Hamster hero hits next week
We're going to bet that a literal hamster ball (albeit a well-armed ball) as a hero is going to divide the Overwatch community. That's...
The Survivalist: Using Conan Exiles for a virtual tabletop campaign
So I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I have actually been formulating an idea. And that is using a survival game...
Fractured pivots from global to regional servers as it pushes toward its Kickstarter goal
Quite often, you hear MMO gamers lament that their communities are artificially separated into different servers, with all of the problems that that entails....
The Daily Grind: How can we solve Reddit’s gaming ‘tragedy of the commons’ problem?
In dealing with the ArenaNet fallout over the last couple of weeks, I started giving serious thought to the Reddit problem in gaming, and...
Creative Assembly’s Grace Carroll speaks on fighting toxicity with active moderation
Anyone who's been on the internet for more than a few minutes knows how quickly forums and comment threads can quickly descend into toxicity...
Defiance 2050 performs better than its predecessor but hasn’t won the community over
With last week's launch of the revamped and rebooted Defiance 2050, Trion Worlds was betting on players flocking back to the sci-fi MMO shooter...
Ashes of Creation’s subreddit has been taken over by Intrepid Studios
Concern and alarm has been raised among the Ashes of Creation community this past week as four members of Intrepid Studios, including CEO Steven...
The Daily Grind: Which online game has suffered the most from its own hype?
I've still got hype on the brain. We've talked about the length of hype cycles and under-hyped MMOs. Now I want to talk about...
Global Chat: Looking back at World of Warcraft’s Legion
Now that the next World of Warcraft expansion is almost upon us, it's time to say farewell to Legion and all that that entails....
Pokemon Go 2 Day Community Event for Eevee, tons of content this weekend and on the horizon
It looks as if the upcoming Pokemon Let's Go games are affecting Pokemon Go once again. I doubt it's a coincidence that the next Community Day Pokemon is...
WRUP: Offending the God of Rabbits has worked out pretty much fine edition
So as you know, last week we managed to direly offend the God of Rabbits, which is remarkable partly insofar as I had expected...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO system or feature is needlessly complex?
Probably one of my greatest and ongoing criticisms of the MMORPG genre is how developers populate these games with systems that are often cumbersome,...
Today in why we can’t have nice things: Roblox players were banned after ‘raping’ little girl’s avatar
Please note, this article covers a sensitive subject - please skip it if the title is already crunching up your stomach.
If you've got kids,...
Exploring Pokemon Go’s real-life communities: MOP staffers revisit the game from opposite corners of the world
It's year two of Pokemon Go. While there's always room for improvement, enough has changed that I feel comfortable recommending the game to at...
The Daily Grind: What exactly defines an ‘indie’ MMORPG studio?
Earlier this week, I happened to see a mainstream website refer to ArtCraft as an indie studio, and it jolted me. ArtCraft, as anybody...
