Gankboxes are sandboxes that place such an emphasis on unrestricted free-for-all PvP that ganking comes to dominate the entire game, to the detriment of the rest of the world design.
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Massively Overthinking: What’s so bad about comfort zones in MMOs?
If you've been following the MMORPG meta for a long time, particularly in World of Warcraft, you know there's corner of the industry convinced...
EVE Echoes’ second anniversary adds a new enemy group and an implant system, preps for an August 19 parade
This week marks two years since the release of EVE Echoes, the alt universe mobile edition of EVE Online, and the devs are celebrating...
Mortal Online 2 offers a new trailer extolling the virtues of the game’s systems
Did you know that Mortal Online 2 is a first-person sandbox MMORPG with open PvP wherein everything important is made by players? Probably. If...
Stick and Rudder: Giving EVE Online another shot
I’m not really sure how to break this to you, dear reader, so I’ll just come out and say it. Oh rats, you already...
EVE Online shares deeper details on planned factional warfare improvements
During EVE Online's Fanfest, CCP Games shared some early details on updates that were in the pipeline for factional warfare. The devs have since...
EVE Online’s Fanfest data dump shows a surprisingly wide range of player types
EVE Online is going full science fair mode with the release of a whole suite of fancy graphs and data collected and presented during...
The Daily Grind: Does your real-life moral compass dictate your MMO activities?
MOP reader Slava has another good scenario for us to ponder this morning.
"I just made a big change in my Albion Online life by...
EVE Online and Star Citizen’s Battle of the Bricks LEGO spaceship build-off concludes today
The battle for supremacy between Star Citizen and EVE Online will be decided through the crucible of plastic toy brick combat. The finale of...
Mortal Online 2 deploys its massive Necromancy patch complete with a new world boss
You know what they call people who see something die and then just leave its corpse there, possibly as a warning to others? Quitters....
EVE Online addresses community safety and promises more action to police community behavior
There's been some drama unfolding in EVE Online recently, the kind of drama that is at once not surprising when you see the cast...
The MOP Up: The Bandai Namco hack
It was a pretty bad week, all things considered, for the folks over at Bandai Namco. The gaming publisher confirmed that it got hacked...
Vague Patch Notes: Yes, sandbox MMOs need tutorials and guidance, too
I'm going to make some sandbox fans a little miffed right here with my opening premise. Yes, your sandbox MMO needs tutorials and probably...
EVE Online banned over 70K RMT and botting accounts over the course of 2021
CCP Games' battle with RMT and bot accounts in EVE Online is likely never going to end, but the devs that are part of...
EVE Online celebrates the Minmatar Liberation Day through July 19
As a general rule, EVE Online is fine with letting you choose how much or how little you want to be invested in the...
Global Chat: Changing opinions about WoW’s dungeon finder
With the dungeon finder being left out of Wrath Classic, it's caused more than a few players to re-evaluate the pros and cons of...
Mortal Online 2’s ‘Project Polish’ will focus on bug squashing and gameplay improvements
If you look through the Steam reviews currently available for Mortal Online 2, it's pretty easy to assume that the game has a lot...
EVE Online takes a closer look at June’s visual and performance overhauls in a dev blog
Sure, EVE Online players have already been experiencing the visual improvements made in June's patch, but have they truly appreciated all of the fine...
EVE Online’s latest video digest takes a closer look at agent updates and its first narrative arc
EVE Online has put out its latest Pulse news digest video and it has plenty to talk about as part of the game's "EVE...
The MOP Up: World of Warcraft counts down the end of Shadowlands Season 3
Just a heads-up for those still participating in World of Warcraft's Mythic+ and PvP seasons: Season 3 has about a month left before Season...
Downgraded sci-fi MMORPG Starborne Frontiers begins closed beta signups
Sci-fi MMORPG Starborne Frontiers has been on our radar a year now as the spawn of Iceland-based Solid Clouds, which as you could probably...
