economy
Guild Wars 2 AMA covers lockboxes, old dungeons, and economy quirks
Last night, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien and 16 other members of the Guild Wars 2 live team hopped on Reddit for an AMA coinciding with...
Enter the Breach in Path of Exiles’ next league, launching December 2
If you've ever wanted to call out "Once more unto the Breach!" as a battle cry, Path of Exile offers you just that chance...
EVE Online is officially free-to-play today with Ascension
"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!"Â That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...
Black Desert Online merges down into EU and NA ‘New World’ servers
If you ever thought that Black Desert's server structure was unwieldy and esoteric, good news for you! Kakao has announced that the western version...
Ascent: The Space Game’s presidential election and player-run GoFundMe
Among the fun quirks of sandboxes is the political intrigue they can spawn. One such drama is currently unfolding in indie sci-fi sandbox Ascent: The...
Cross-platform space MMO Nebula Online has launched today
EVE Online has a little bit of competition in the hardcore kitchen this month, as indie title Nebula Online launched today on iOS, Android,...
EVE Online GMs removed at least 25 trillion ISK worth $400,000 from the game
If you've been reading the gaming news this week, you may have heard about the enormous amount of wealth that was recently removed from EVE...
EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions
Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...
Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters
This past weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. It turned out that exploiters had been using...
Black Desert’s patch today buffs the Tamer with her awakening weapon
Today's Black Desert update adds the Tamer's awakening weapon, a bo staff that expands the Tamer's melee abilities:
"The Celestial Bo Staff allows Tamers to...
Black Desert acknowledges infinite gathering bug, promises ‘action’ against exploiters
Last weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. While at the time, Kakao said it had...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter brings the thunder to consoles (October 23, 2016)
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...
Hardcore sci-fi MMO Nebula Online leaves early access for launch in November
Back at the beginning of 2015, a plucky "old-school hardcore sci-fi" MMORPG called Nebula Online put forth a Kickstarter to build "the perfect MMO"...
Crowfall on its player-driven economy as inspired by classic MMORPGs
If you've been keeping an eye on Crowfall's recent crafting updates and are wondering how exactly everything fits together in the PvP-centric MMORPG, then...
Riders of Icarus will allow players to trade cash shop items on the AH
Riders of Icarus' economy is about to experience a seismic change with the next update, as the game will allow for the resale of...
Tamriel Infinium vs Hyperspace Beacon: Three ways to make lockboxes work better in MMORPGs
Last week, I stirred up a hornet’s nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn’t mind them in general.
Hyperspace...
Guild Wars 2 changes course on its economy and PvP
Guild Wars 2's resident economist John Smith made an announcement on the official forums yesterday, and no, it wasn't about butter, but it was...
7 Days to Die publishes its ‘biggest content drop to date’
It's heady times for alpha players of 7 Days to Die. The zombie survival sandbox released its Alpha 15 update earlier this morning, which...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R34 delivers Halloween, culinary utility, and /pukeblood
Release 34 has launched for Shroud of the Avatar players as of this morning along with a large balance and polish pass for both the...
Crowfall’s Raph Koster and Thomas Blair on the challenges of MMORPG harvesting
Harvesting in an MMORPG is just the boring gruntwork you have to trudge through before you can get to the glory of crafting --...
