economy
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
Trove is back online after major economy exploit; Trion to offer compensation, ban perpetrators
Trion's voxelbox Trove was down most of yesterday thanks to what screenshots clearly identified as a massive duping exploit that positively trashed the game's economy...
Trove has been down since the crack of dawn thanks to an economy-breaking dupe exploit
Bad stuff is happening in Trove. Or was happening. Right now, nothing's happening at all because the servers came down early this morning, and...
The Stream Team: A first look at Occupy White Walls
Most times Massively OP's MJ goes into a new game, she's got a general idea of what to expect. Not For Occupy White Walls,...
Star Citizen fans raise pay-to-win objections over removal of in-game currency stockpiling cap
Our inbox exploded last night with Star Citizen tips, and that can mean only one thing: money shenanigans. In-game money, that is, but this...
Occupy White Walls is heading to Steam
Good news for cans of art curation, strange MMOs, or early access titles in general. The singularly unusual MMO Occupy White Walls is on...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG boasts the best space gameplay?
Over the past week or so, I've been tinkering with Star Wars Galaxies Legends, an NGE emulator for SWG that's actually pretty polished and...
Arr! Puzzle Pirates: Dark Seas has fully launched on Steam
Arrrr! If Sea of Thieves isn't doing it for you, maybe you should board a more classic ship, like Puzzle Pirates - specifically, Puzzle...
Interview and excerpt: The ‘Braving Britannia’ book preserves Ultima Online’s oral history
Earlier this week, we wrote about the launch of a new book that's right up MMORPG fans' alley. Dubbed Braving Britannia: Tales of Life,...
Ashes of Creation handles world persistence and local economies in its own fashion
With a rapidly expanding studio and Alpha One coming later this year, Ashes of Creation is shaping up to be one of the great...
Star Citizen’s 3.2 quarterly alpha update is fully live, with new ships, mining, and cash-shop features
Star Citizen's alpha 3.2 has finally and formally released to all comers, CIG announced this weekend.
"In the new patch, Star Citizen players can use...
The Daily Grind: Would you play Star Wars Galaxies if it relaunched today?
Star Wars Galaxies is 15 years old now, and it was just about seven years ago that SOE announced it was slated for execution....
Warframe’s crackdown on platinum resellers wrecks their innocent victims too
A massive thread on the Warframe subreddit this weekend shows just the sort of problems MMO studios have waded into in their haste to...
Multiplayer sandbox Staxel builds out NPCs, pet shops, and summer festivals
Staxel took over the playtime of a bunch of my Twitter buddies this past winter when it hit early access on Steam. We described...
Closers details the effects of removing the game’s fatigue system
When you're enjoying a game, the last thing you want to be told is that it's time to stop playing for a while because...
Gran Skrea brings an indie sandbox MMO to early access
On the prowl for an undiscovered indie MMORPG these days? You might want to check out Gran Skrea Online, as it just went into...
‘Magic through serendipity’: Raph Koster on the glorious mess that was Ultima Online
I was a wide-eyed, naive kid when I first stepped into Ultima Online in 1997, and as it turns out, the developers were too.
That's...
Dual Universe wants you to join the blue collar workforce
Flunked out of interstellar academy? Left your parents' home on Mars at 17 and decided to make it on your own? Enjoy lugging stuff...
Get caught up on the Darkfall spinoffs as ex-Aventurine devs explain what happened to the original (and throw shade)
Unless you're a hardcore Darkfall player from way back in the day as MOP's Andrew was, you probably look at the sequels and spinoffs...
How the best devs are ‘fleeing in droves’ to escape the abusive games industry
My only nephew is something of a math prodigy, and the fact that he wants to be a game designer when he grows up...
