economy
WoW Factor: The pros and cons of stripping timer requirements from World of Warcraft’s Mythic+ runs
So the other day, an interesting topic came up in our feeds: Apparently, at least if you go by the survey, World of Warcraft's...
Albion Online plans updates to economy, Outlands, and release timing in 2025
It's been a packed year for the PvP sandbox Albion Online, and what better way to look back at the year that was than...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
Pax Dei’s Market Square update officially launches tomorrow with gold and market stalls
If you weren't already overloaded with MMO patches, new games, and Christmas events, here's one more: Pax Dei is dropping its massive update, dubbed...
Pax Dei clarifies economy overhaul, addresses concerns over new Discord chat system
Pax Dei's communications team has its hands full this week with upcoming and arriving updates in the early access MMO. One of these covers...
Pax Dei’s next major update will focus on establishing an in-game gold and trade economy
Right now, the general thrust of living in Pax Dei's world is merely survival. Sure, you can thrive and build a big ol' town...
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
WoW Factor: A World of Warcraft housing wishlist
To the surprise of basically no one who is at least passingly familiar with me over the past several years, I am indeed still...
Elite Dangerous details its new Cobra Mk V ship and its upcoming colonization gameplay feature
Last month, Frontier Developments decided to drop a surprise in the laps of Elite: Dangerous players by finally announcing the all-new space colonization system...
Perfect Ten: The allure of a fresh start MMO server
This week, WoW Classic activated another set of "fresh start" servers -- something that it's been doing pretty much annually since 2019. Yet even...
Massively Overthinking: Breaking the load-bearing mechanics in MMORPGs
The parable of Chesterton's Fence has been making the rounds on social media this week in a political context, but I want to talk...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go’s Max Raid and Gigantamax Battles aren’t helping the community
"What's the incentive? They look cool? It's not worth it." This is the player sentiment I've been seeing after people have spent some time...
Pax Dei’s Proving Grounds update removes previously learned crafting recipes from characters’ brains
One of the many features applied in Pax Dei's big saucy Proving Grounds update was an adjustment to crafting progression that would make it...
Throne and Liberty launches Phantom Tracker’s Star season and battlepass as it fights RMT
In the wee hours of this morning, Amazon pushed out another patch for Throne and Liberty:Â The 1.5.0 update launches the new battle pass for...
Eterspire introduces player trading and new quests in latest update
Player trading always seems like another one of those expected features in MMORPGs that you don't miss until it's gone. Luckily the most recent...
XLGames rebrands ArcheAge 2 as ‘online action RPG’ ArcheAge Chronicles, but it still sounds like an MMO
If you thought endless delays and the unceremonious sunset of ArcheAge were the worst things that could happen to ArcheAge 2, think again because...
How hyper investment and greed led to the games industry’s ‘GaaSacre’ and downward slump
Hindsight is always 20/20, and no more is that axiom more appropriate than a look back at how the gaming industry got to the...
Black Desert’s latest expansion videos highlight an orchestra playing traditional Korean instruments
Black Desert's Land of the Morning Light: Seoul expansion landed last week, but Pearl Abyss is still cranking out new promotional videos - remember,...
Corepunk delays beta wipe as combat overhaul is unfinished, talks up the PvP/PvE mode
Corepunk is back with another update aimed at the now-limited group of people who paid to access to ongoing beta while preorders were still...
EVE Online blockchain spinoff Project Awakening rebrands as EVE Frontier ahead of ‘founder access’
You had to figure that CCP Games wasn't going to keep calling Project Awakening that forever, right? Indeed it was not, and as of...
