economy
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...
Over 6400 players built 50 empires in BitCraft’s last sandbox playtest
The September letter from the producer for BitCraft has arrived just as the game's second closed alpha test comes to a close - a...
Massively Overthinking: Monetization dealbreakers in MMORPGs
A few weeks back, I overheard my kids complaining about some custom Minecraft server that was apparently trying to monetize survival mode, which seemed...
Last Epoch is getting a ‘full cycle refresh’ with September’s Imperial Uprising event
Looking for a helpful onramp into Last Epoch but are feeling a little behind right now? The playing field should be leveled next month...
Temtem’s final content update gets a release date of September 2 as full focus diverts to Swarm
The last horizon for the MMO-turned-lite Temtem now has a date. Following an earlier promise for patch 1.8 to land sometime in early September,...
The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO player who never does crafting?
This one goes out to all the non-crafters in the house. No, not you oddballs who opt out of the player economy on some...
Skull & Bones arrives on Steam today as Season 3 Into the Dragon’s Wake goes live
Ubisoft is full-speed ahead with Skull and Bones' third season, which is officially live as of this afternoon. Dubbed Into the Dragon's Wake, the...
Pax Dei on surviving the sandbox as a solo player: ‘Playing solo does not mean playing alone’
So here's the tricky thing about MMORPGs: Their greatest strength lies in their massively multiplayer nature, and yet sometimes we just don't want to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO could use a currency crunch – or better yet, a currency do-over?
Earlier this year, an MOP commenter replying to us on social media suggested that Guild Wars 2 was a "mess" - and part of...
Lost Ark’s Calm Before the Storm update is live with Indigo Island content and bound gold
If you can't spend your August vacationing in the real world, Lost Ark invites you to Indigo Island in Arkesia, which is live today...
Sea of Thieves wipes out the progression of 20K players who used a Season 13 rewards exploit
There was a pretty big exploit that ran rampant in Sea of Thieves when Season 13 went live. How big? Well, it introduced 300B...
