economy
Neverwinter’s Underdark is available now, Astral Diamond economy is being examined
As of today, Neverwinter players are going underground. Not in the sense that they're becoming very obscure, but in the sense that the Underdark...
Ask Mo: The absurd advantages of MMO guilds
A Massively OP reader named Ohnix recently sent us a question just perfect for Ask Mo. Let's debate guilds!
I play EverQuest II quite a...
The Daily Grind: What do you look for in a sandbox MMO?
Sandbox lovers must be in heaven lately with so many new choices arising in MMO circles. It seems as though most of the newer...
Neverwinter outlines the path to masterwork crafting
Masterwork crafting in Neverwinter is not meant to be something you just start doing on your second day of crafting. It's right there in...
Rust opens player-created item store
Rust is the latest online game to open up an item store, but it's actually more interesting than it sounds. The store sells only...
New Crowfall site design asks players to consider their legacy
Roads can deteriorate, statues crumble, castles collapse, and books are lost. But legacies persist. A redesign for Crowfall's website plays up the idea that each...
CCP says EVE’s economy is doing great despite player decline
Do you like EVE Online? Do you like charts and graphs? If you answered yes to both of those questions, the latest CCP dev...
The MOP Up: Free Tribes for all (November 1, 2015)
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...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Moral panic and online griefing
Welcome back to our ongoing exploration of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt’s book The Video Game Debate. As you can guess, the book itself focuses...
Grab an Armored Warfare collector’s edition key (All gone, thanks everyone!)
Get your clicking fingers ready! Thanks to Obsidian Entertainment and My.com, we've got 30 collector's edition keys for tank MMO shooter Armored Warfare to...
Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: How to fix an expansion iteratively
I know I promised you an entry that focused on the changes to the in-game economy as my next installment to the Heart of Thorns...
Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns launch diary: Gaining masteries and lessening the grind
I've had the whole weekend with Heart of Thorns now, and I'm progressing very nicely in both the story and masteries. I've still yet to...
Massively Overthinking: WildStar, Guild Wars 2, and MMO raiding in 2015
Here we are in October, sandwiched between WildStar's F2P conversion and Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns launch, and it seems as if we're...
Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Immersion, heroism, and realism
Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...
Trove explains its new player marketplace
You - yes, you - are the most perfectly creative player in Trove. You know it, your friends know it, and your enemies pretend...
Destiny addresses major bug before Trials of Osiris return
Competitive content that's meant to push players to their limits is something less than effective when bugs muck up the process. The Destiny team...
WildStar patches in some economic improvements
WildStar offers some robust options for customizing gear in both appearance and stats, but some of those systems were just a bit more pricey...
Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns economy and legendary weapons
ArenaNet has published two Guild Wars 2 dev blogs today: one on the economy and one on legendary weapons. ANet economist John Smith begins by...
WildStar promises economy and tradeskill improvements
In response to player feedback from the recent Reloaded update for WildStar, Carbine is preparing several changes to the economy and tradeskills that will be added...
Project Copernicus was in trouble long before its $75M loan
The lengthy post-mortem of Project Copernicus and 38 Studios never seems to end, does it? While the answer to "What went wrong?" is multi-faceted at the very...
