game design

EVE Online is often painted as a harsh universe without rules where you could have your entire net worth destroyed or swiped right from under...

MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis." "The MMO...

When I first discovered EVE Online back in 2004, it had been out in the wild for just under a year and was a much...

For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...

Massively OP reader Suikoden wrote this great question to the podcast -- too good to let just Justin and me answer it. It's a...

I was chatting with my mom this morning when I was surprised to hear her say that she was impressed with how good my...

At the end of February, CCP Games announced a new game that has nothing to do with EVE Online or even the EVE IP. Named Sparc,...

Just under four years ago at EVE Fanfest 2013, EVE Online's Executive Producer Andie Nordgren took the stage and delivered an epic long-term vision for the...

Quantic Foundry, the games research group we've been tracking ever since it posted its original Gamer Motivation Model, has a new piece out this...

If you are the sort that has ever looked at online game design and thought to yourself, "I could do so much better," then...

This week CCP Games announced that some big changes are on the way for PLEX in EVE Online. The PLEX or "30-day Pilot's License...

CCP announced this morning that it's overhauling PLEX in EVE Online. As the currency works now, players buy the 30-day sub token known as PLEX...

Making money in free-to-play games isn't as simple as pursuing a single revenue stream. Often studios are looking at multiple approaches to coax players...

The EVE Online community was a little surprised this week by what appeared to be the accidental early reveal of the feature list for this summer's...

I am finding it hard to believe that we are two months into 2017 already, especially since I've had so many pressing Guild Chat...

Sometimes even the most die-hard MMORPG player finds him or herself a little tired of constantly looking at the back of a head and...

If you followed our EVE Fanfest coverage last year, you might remember CCP announcing plans to add a whole series of new deployable structures...

EVE Online has practically dominated the sci-fi sandbox MMO niche for nearly 14 years, with its harsh PvP-oriented gameplay and massive single-server universe combining to provide something that's...

In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

A few weeks ago, the Massively OP writers were hanging in the news room on a tear about mohawks. We're not against mohawks. Mohawks...