economy
DayZ finally makes hard plans to leave early access and launch (beta) next year
Remember like 50 million years ago when DayZ was young, Dean Hall was at the top of everybody's interview list, and nobody realized the...
Raph Koster on the cost of making games from the industry side
All of this talk about the price of making games and the price of playing games thanks to Star Wars: Battlefront II has meant...
Destiny 2 doubles level XP following last week’s botched event
Remember how Bungie bungled Destiny 2's XP scaling event and had to disable the whole thing after players found that the game was throttling...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate?
Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...
Shroud of the Avatar teases winter holiday items and the R48 artifact revamp
Are you one of those folks who laments that the winter holiday season gets pushed earlier and earlier every year? If so, you're not...
Visit EVE Online’s massive player graveyard
When you think of an MMO "sandbox," what comes to mind? Player housing, perhaps, and open world PvP. Maybe a free-form economy, player vendors,...
Shroud of the Avatar announces big gameplay change and new trial
Following the release of its October content update a few days ago, Shroud of the Avatar's weekly newsletter delivered a hodge-podge of smaller news...
EVE Evolved: The Agency could revolutionise casual PvE in EVE Online
Though EVE Online has a reputation as a cut-throat PvP sandbox where anything goes, the fuel that fires its conflict engine has always been...
Albion Online outlines content plans, will give more love to the solo player
With Albion Online now in a launch state and rocking a "stable economy," Game Director Robin Henkys says that it's high time to take...
Destiny 2 passes the baton to the live team, outlines future updates
"Right now at Bungie, we’ve passed the development torch from the people that made Destiny 2 to the people who will sustain it."
With both...
Hyperspace Beacon: Star Wars The Old Republic’s cash shop is finally on the right track
Many of you will immediately turn to the free-to-play model of Star Wars: The Old Republic and reject my even thinking about the cash...
EVE Online gives miners the tools to do the job right
Mining might not be the most visually impressive or glorious activity in EVE Online, but it helps to form the backbone of the game's...
Uncharted Waters Online relaunches today
Uncharted Waters Online is dead, long live Uncharted Waters Online!
For the past few weeks, the old version of UWO has been offline following the...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Immortal Thrones, Identity, and Lordmancer II
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down three of them.
Immortal Thrones
First up...
ArcheAge merges fresh start and legacy auction houses
The economy for ArcheAge servers is getting a little more unified. During the game's next weekly maintenance window, the auction houses for the game's...
Prosperous Universe is an indie sci-fi sandbox MMORPG focused on player economy
So here's an MMO we've never heard of before: It's called Prosperous Universe. It's super duper indie alpha browser-based massively online game, with single-shard...
The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Taiwan meet-and-greet (October 8, 2017)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Massively Overthinking: Epic Tavern-style player-generated content in MMORPGs
Ever played Epic Tavern? Massively OP reader Uli though it would make an interesting point of comparison for MMO content. "Epic Tavern is a...
Raph Koster on how Ultima Online pushed the MMO industry forward
Game Designer Raph Koster continues to ponder the significance of Ultima Online on this, the 20th anniversary of the MMORPG's historic release. In a...
