exploits
Flameseeker Chronicles: My Guild Wars 2 goals for 2018
It's the time of year for spring-cleaning and goal-setting, where we look ahead to a fresh start filled with plenty of days left for...
ARK Survival Evolved grants amnesty to players exploiting a bug since 2015
Hey, ARK: Survival Evolved cheaters! Your doom is nigh!... actually no your doom has been postponed, chiefly because so many people are cheaters, or...
The MOP Up: Overwatch rings in the Lunar New Year (February 4, 2018)
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...
H1Z1 struggles to counter rapid player strafing
Well here is something that we learned today: the meaning of ENAS. If you're not deep into the PvP shooter scene, the East North...
Elite Dangerous disables part of its passenger transport system to block huge credit exploit
If you were among those farming your Elite Dangerous bajillions running bulk passenger transports to Smeaton Orbital (or various other well-placed stations), your fun...
Fortnite explains why you can’t frag your friends any longer
Are you upset, happy, or ignorant about last week's move to disable friendly fire in Fortnite? While griefers are probably sobbing into their Wheaties...
Just Survive wipes and starts over for the sake of ‘fair play’
Yes. There is indeed a yeti with a sniper rifle in the header. Let us all pretend that he doesn't exist and he might...
Game Theory explores the psychological exploitation at work in lockboxes
"It's as easy as one, two, insert your credit card number here!" So begins the parody at the beginning of the first of two...
Destiny 2 players erupt over token throttling bugs
Another day, another Destiny 2 subreddit meltdown, and it's not over the Eververse cash shop, holiday items, or lockboxes this time.
Redditors report a multitude...
CCP addresses EVE Online botter problem, saying it’s at the ‘top of the list’
Last week, we reported on a situation brewing on the EVE Online subreddit, where player after player spoke out about the game's botting problem,...
Fortnite racks up 40 million downloads, boasts about its success
Forty million downloads. That's the staggering number that Epic Games is tossing around concerning its incredibly successful Fortnite after a busy holiday season. That's...
Life is Feudal MMO has launched into early access on Steam
Builder-centric sandbox Life is Feudal has officially launched into early access with a buy-in of $29.99, and that's the MMO version, mind you, not...
EVE Online players beg CCP to address botters after gamer takes down eight botter ships
Is there a quota for how many sci-fi spaceship MMOs with playerbases angry over exploits we can cover in a week? Because if so,...
Wild Terra outlines upcoming system changes to improve post-launch issues
Bears! What are they good for? Hides in Wild Terra (say it again)! Except that actually getting those hides proved a lot harder than...
Elite Dangerous denies player allegation that it’s not addressing combat logging exploits
Most online games have rules governing running from a fight, abandoning a team, or exiting the game to avoid gameplay, be they MMORPGs or...
Hyperspace Beacon: Three things SWTOR could add in 2018 to turn itself around
Star Wars: The Old Republic did not have a banner year in 2017. It was the first year since the launch year that did...
Black Desert bans nearly 600 fish botters
In the war between robots and fish, the only side who wins is... wait, is there a war going between robots and fish? Well,...
SWTOR gradually responds to Update 5.6 credit exploit
A severe credit exploit that popped up following last week's Game Update 5.6 in Star Wars: The Old Republic has led to massive disruptions...
Dark and Light opens master builder servers
One neat thing about survival sandboxes is that they seem to embrace a wider variety of rulesets than we typically see in most MMORPGs....
Life is Feudal is rolling out a clean-slate roleplaying server following shaky open beta launch
The MMO version of Life is Feudal got off to a shaky open beta start last week, not that our seasoned MMO veteran commenters...
