economy
Elite Dangerous: A ground-pounding newbie’s perspective
Earlier this summer I wrote that Elite Dangerous' community events were something the MMO community should watch. Watch. I never said play, and I never ended...
Kritika Online releases first open beta patch
Have any of you given Kritika Online a try? This action MMORPG may be slipping under a lot of people's radars during this shockingly...
Massively Overthinking: Building a better MMORPG economy
We are on a roll with the epic questions for Overthinking lately! "The recent article about monetization got me thinking about just how much most...
Albion Online raised almost $10M, officially launches today
If it seems as if you've been hearing about Albion Online for a long time, you're not wrong. In fact, the game has delayed...
Armored Warfare announces Eye of the Storm expansion
This morning we had a lively discussion in the Massively OP office over whether or not Armored Warfare had ever actually launched. We thought...
Monetization expert: MMOs are dying because of clueless design, not insufficient demand
MMORPG players just love it when somebody declares the MMORPG dead, right? All those games you're playing, all the games we're writing about and...
Black Desert ups the in-game prices on cash shop items in the auction market
Players are making more in-game money in Black Desert than they were a year ago. Part of that is just, you know, a year...
Life is Feudal tests economy, battle system during fourth closed beta
Life is Feudal's MMO version is kicking off a fourth round of closed beta today for those of you lucky enough to snag an...
League of Legends increases prices in the UK over Brexit currency woes
Your pounds won't carry you quite as far in League of Legends at this point. The game's prices for Riot Points (i.e., the currency...
With R43 behind it, Shroud of the Avatar looks ahead to Q3
Shroud of the Avatar's 43rd release dropped over the weekend, boasting tweaks to the Path of the Oracle, performance updates, a balancing pass for...
Shroud of the Avatar vastly increases game performance with Release 43
One of the big complaints about Shroud of the Avatar during its lengthy testing process has concerned poor optimization and clunky, laggy gameplay. These issues...
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
Amazon’s Breakaway revamps warriors, confirms more upgrades on the way
Last September, the internet was buzzing about Amazon Game Studios' big reveals, including Breakaway, which the company teased for weeks ahead of time. It...
What’s it like when you stop being a gold farmer in World of Warcraft?
For a very long time, selling gold in World of Warcraft was a path to making money. It was unethical and against the terms...
EVE Evolved: The controversy over EVE Online’s capital ship nerfs
EVE Online players have been up in arms this week over sweeping nerfs that are about to hit to high-end farming gameplay styles in the...
The Stream Team: Living in a Pixel Worlds world
What is a social sandbox, you ask? Well MassivelyOP's MJ is going to find out! So far she knows it involves pixels: Pixel Worlds launches...
EVE Online players own over a quadrillion ISK
EVE Online is often joked about as being "spreadsheets in space," but that doesn't exclude bar charts and other types of graphs in participating...
Revelation Online server merges are incoming (with a new server launch, too!)
Revelation Online is preparing for server merges next week, but they might not be for the reason you think.
The team announced that eight US...
SpatialOS-powered Fractured is a sandbox MMO without the grind or forced PvP
The burgeoning SpatialOS empire has a new member state this week, as Italy-based Dynamight Studios announced that it is making Fractured using the world-building platform. Fractured...
Cross-platform social sandbox MMO Pixel Worlds comes to PC next week
Tired of cutthroat guild politics, giant epaulets, and lens flare in big budget MMOs? Point your eyeballs instead at Pixel Worlds, a game Finnish...
