economy
Fractured Online dresses up its website, consolidates details on races and gameplay systems
Fractured Online has a fresh new fit to its official site, and it's just dying to show it off; if a website could take...
Profane offers a first look at gatherable items and gathering gameplay plans
Gathering. It's a touchstone of the MMORPG gameplay loop and is especially important in a sandbox title like Profane, which has shared some preview...
RuneScape aims to reduce the sting of dying in order to encourage more risk-takers
If you weren't paying attention, earlier this year RuneScape ran a four-week event called Frank's Free Deaths. This allowed players to engage in boss...
The MOP Up: The Bandai Namco hack
It was a pretty bad week, all things considered, for the folks over at Bandai Namco. The gaming publisher confirmed that it got hacked...
World of Warships adds more British battlecruisers, US destroyer model changes, and Titans of Industry event
The British Union Flag is referred to as a Union Jack when it's flying on a warship that's not in a harbor. The distinction...
World of Warcraft takes players on a tour of Dragonflight’s overhauled crafting system
Perhaps you thought it was curious -- or even exciting -- to see Blizzard flagging World of Warcraft's crafting for a huge update with...
Massively Overthinking: Solved problems in MMOs
One of the most annoying pet peeves this genre seems to spin up frequently is some companies' tendency to treat solved problems as unsolved...
New World’s game director shares vague plans for weapons, more Expeditions, and a new zone
The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook podcast series recently brought together Insomniac CEO Ted Price and New World Game Director Scot Lane to talk about...
Colony sandbox MMO SEED raises another $41M in investment, partly from a blockchain company
Way back in 2017, we learned about a then-new SpatialOS MMORPG called SEED from Klang Games. SEED was supposed to be a colony-centered sandbox...
Blizzard tells Wrath Classic players that new fresh start servers might not have transfers open after 90 days
So players who wanted fresh start servers for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Classic are getting their wish. (Since people who...
Lost Ark readies for for a ‘massive’ banning of the bots
The battle of the bots - or more specifically, against the bots - continues in Lost Ark. Amazon told players last night to expect...
Play-to-earn Axie Infinity hasn’t weathered the crypto crash well as players ‘lose hope’
The cautionary tale that is Axie Infinity is likely well known to most, but for those who are looking for a rundown of the...
Massively Overthinking: ‘Every MMO inconvenience is someone else’s game’
A while back, someone in our comments (I can't find it again, so I can't remember who!) dug up a quote from Raph Koster...
Albion Online heads Into the Fray with today’s update – check out the new trailer!
After weeks of previews, the day is finally here: PvP sandbox MMO Albion Online has released its Into the Fray patch. Headlining the update...
Pantheon jaws about combat and adventuring in its May dev roundtable
It's that time again for curious and invested Pantheon fans to pour a cup of their favorite beverage, gather the family around the computeramatron,...
Massively Overthinking: Making money in MMOs – easy, hard, or in-between?
A few days ago, I was hanging out in a certain MMORPG's Discord when an age-old class fight broke out - and I don't...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best auction hall system?
I can't remember where I was reading it, but a commenter on MOP recently said that the lack of auction hall in The Elder...
Black Desert’s new silver and extraction rebalance raises fresh whaling complaints
We've got a bit of an eyebrow-raiser for you from Black Desert this morning: Pearl Abyss is making a precision strike on the economy...
Riot doesn’t want the Runeterra MMO to ‘be the only game you will ever play’
Riot Games' Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street has been dropping more words on Twitter to tease and hype the MMORPG he's spearheading for the company. The...
RuneScape makes controversial Treasure Hunter changes, OSRS previews smithing minigame
For those who like the lockbox-riddled Treasure Hunter in RuneScape, listen up: There are some more changes coming down the pike next week, intended...
