exploits
ArcheAge’s free mana crystal Twitter promotion leads to a 24 hour-long exploitation spree
Back when Kakao was kicking off its relaunch of ArcheAge, it was running a Twitter promotion that promised mana crystals for players if a...
Wisdom of Nym: Please do not hear of the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV
Well that was surprising. In case you somehow missed it, Square-Enix took a heretofore unprecedented step this week, announcing that not only would Final Fantasy...
Old School RuneScape adds a Grand Exchange tax and item sink system, proposes death pile changes to Ultimate Ironman
The winds of change are continuing to blow over Old School RuneScape, which shouldn't be a surprise since that's just how MMORPGs roll. Specifically,...
New World’s director discusses testing cadence, future features, and contending with update issues
By now New World's unsteadiness is well-known among MMORPG fans. The game's initial launch caught fire, but over the past few months the game...
Destiny 2 marks Bungie’s 30th anniversary with new free and buy-to-play celebratory content
The 30th anniversary of Bungie is being celebrated in Destiny 2's latest update/DLC pack, which as the headline suggests offers some goodies celebrating the...
Kakao’s ArcheAge AMA suggests revamps of crime and trade systems, monitoring for ‘nefarious gameplay’
Yesterday, Kakao ran an AMA on the MMORPG subreddit to address player "confusion" over its impending stewardship of ArcheAge here in the west following...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever exploited in an MMO?
New World's seemingly endless parade of exploits had reawakened my wonder about who exactly buys a game only to try to break it for...
Today’s New World patch tackles the server time-jumping bug, lowers housing taxes
As we noted yesterday, a significant number of New World players have been affected by the bug whereby some servers basically become unstuck in...
The Daily Grind: Do all the New World issues make you less enthusiastic to play?
We were talking in work chat the other day about how all New World really had to do this year was launch in a competent...
New World goes Into the Void with today’s huge November update
If you were wondering when New World's big November update was finally going to drop, wonder no more: It's this morning. The servers are...
New World says it’s banned over 1660 exploiters and purged 98% of duped stuff from the economy
Hey, cheaters: If you thought the sheer volume of exploits rampaging around New World the last month and change meant you'd slip by under...
Massive New World datamine hints at dungeon group finder, weapons, zone, and potential mounts
A common refrain of people playing New World is that it still somehow feels like it's rushed out of the door, missing content, features,...
New World announces server merges are ‘on the horizon,’ stays stubborn on mini-map issue
You may have fought angry specters, old gods, and even a raid boss or two, but you're really going to have to gear up...
Desert Oasis: Unearthing the origin story of Black Desert studio Pearl Abyss
On our side of the pond, the exploits of various popular video game companies and their founding are well documented. But when it comes...
New World’s patch this week tackles gold spammers, exploits, and respec costs
New World's servers are going down this morning for what will hopefully be only a three-hour maintenance window and patch process. So let's kick...
New World addresses exploits, communication lapses, and goals for its PvP systems
New World has stolen headlines for weeks now thanks to its launch problems, which have been compounded by its parade of exploits and communication...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 345: The rise of Fallen Earth
Justin and Bree discuss Fallen Earth Classic, New World's messes, Blizzard's outlook, Magic Legends, Riders Republic, and Pikmin Bloom, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on how forum comments affect our opinions of MMOs.
New World’s gold dupe exploit stopgap fix revealed… another gold dupe
File this one under "this is why we can't have nice things": The situation in Amazon's New World went from bad to worse while...
New World disables ‘all forms of wealth transfer’ in the wake of a new gold dupe exploit
Another day, another exploit in New World - the latest is apparently a gold duping exploit.
"We are aware of a possible gold duplication exploit...
New World is suffering from yet another exploit, this one revolving around malicious chat code
The New World community is becoming absolute experts at finding bugs and exploits in the game, prodded on by Amazon's apparent willingness to provide...
