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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EVE Online’s first release of the year is really smashing rocks
You move 16 tons (of asteroids), what do you get? Another hour of skill training and a whole lot of destroyed asteroids, plus a...
Perfect Ten: Mobile MMOs to watch in 2018
Love it or hate it, MMOs are going mobile in ever-increasing numbers. Last year saw a crop of acclaimed titles making their way to...
EVE Online releases its December 2018 economic report
Forget space adventures, who'd like to look at some spreadsheets? Yes, it's time for the monthly official EVE Online economic report, breaking down all of...
EVE Evolved: Seven of the best EVE Online fan videos of all time
EVE Online has a long history of incredible cinematics and player-made videos, but that legacy has somewhat fallen by the wayside in recent years....
An EVE Online corporation has been hit with a GDPR request from an ex-member
We often talk about how EVE Online can sometimes mirror the real world in startling detail, with its complex politics, global power struggles, and player-run...
EVE Online fan builds a custom fishtank with a Keepstar battle station
Considering how much nautical terminology space battles tend to adopt, we think it feels like a natural progression to include some scenery from space...
Ashes of Creation snaps up another Daybreak dev, this time from H1Z1 Just Survive
Daybreak's loss is Ashes of Creation's gain. Again.
Intrepid Studio's habit of roping in former developers from SOE and Daybreak continues, as former H1Z1: Just...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2018
A not-inconsequential part of me misses the days when every MMO would pump out boxed expansions. I like buying boxes of stuff I like...
A look back at the MMO and gaming science topics of 2018
Over the last couple of years since becoming Massively OP, we've made a concerted effort to improve the quality of our gaming science-related articles, as...
Daybreak found another 6000 $300 lifetime subs to sell, somehow
A week before Christmas, Daybreak announced that it was selling a $300 lifetime sub for its current stable of MMORPGs: a new version of...
EVE Evolved: How mass surveillance is improving EVE Online
When developers get on stage at an event and start talking about things like big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud solutions, it often sounds...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018
Everyone loves surprises, right? Not always. Even good surprises can be a disruption of our comfortable routines, and bad ones can downright ruin a...
The Daily Grind: What MMO had the best player community in 2018?
One of the informal award type articles we've done every year for the last couple of years is this one: the one sussing out...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
CCP announces event schedule for 2019’s EVE Online World Tour
Not satisfied with their massive yearly Fanfests, the folks at CCP Games are taking EVE on a world tour, and they've just announced the...
Hands-on: Dipping into Ashes of Creation’s Apocalypse battle royale
The first question we need to ask is: What am I, the sheepiest of all PvE sheep, doing in a PvP battle royale game?...
Pathfinder Online adds enchanting, runs a major multi-week event
So what is going on with the struggling-yet-still-somehow-alive Pathfinder Online? It turns out that this fantasy title has been chugging its way along in...
Gloria Victis updates to be more festive amidst the clanging of steel
Amidst the devastation and frenzy of combat in the hardscrabble world of Gloria Victis, you can unlock the greatest reward by having a festive-looking campfire....
Interview: New World’s Rich Lawrence on solving PvP problems and defining the sandbox
I think it's fair to say that New World is the biggest MMO currently under production in the west, at least among those games...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value going into 2019
Here we go, here we go, here we go again. This one is always an interesting column to write because there's a certain amount...
