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 OP Podcast Episode 127: EVE walks no more
Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, Guild Wars 2, EVE, SWTOR, Black Desert, Albion, and Citadel, plus a mailbag question on class and character investment in MMORPGs, with a special interview segment featuring ARK: Survival Evolved composer Gareth Coker.
The MOP Up: Crash Force offers arena fun at a discount (July 16, 2017)
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...
Massively Overthinking: Consumer protections in the MMORPG industry
Veteran Massively OP reader Miol says he's exhausted by a recent string of stories in which MMO companies screw gamers over, one after another:...
EVE Online is killing off the last remnants of walking in stations
Hey remember EVE Online's walking in stations, the talk of the genre a decade ago? Remember when all we really got was a captain's...
EVE Online’s July release furthers exoplanet research, revamps T3 strategic cruisers
Happy July patch day, capsuleers! Yep, EVE Online's July release is now live. The patch includes "one of the most extensive and largest rebalances...
Check out Revelation Online’s Eternal Chasm dungeon
Revelation Online has a new dev blog up today on the Eternal Chasm, one of its level 59+ multiple-mode instanced dungeons.
"Shinji – after the...
EVE Evolved: Does EVE Online need more conflict-drivers?
Of all the terminology associated with EVE Online, the one thing that's always made me a bit uncomfortable is to hear players describe PvP as "generating...
The Daily Grind: How would you define an MMO gankbox?
A couple of weeks ago, our own Justin wrote a Daily Grind wherein he suggested that EVE Online was a gankbox, earning him some argument...
EVE Online puts players to work sorting through new exoplanet data
The space explored by players in EVE Online is far beyond our own solar system, but here in the real world we're still struggling...
Perfect Ten: MMOs in limbo
The one thing that I thought we could all count on forever was that the MMO life cycle was pretty easy to understand. A...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon reveals its post-launch roadmap
In case it slipped your mind, Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched a whole two months ago now. With the fresh car smell of this...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
Gloria Victis sings a song of improved combat and performance
Sometimes it's the small details that makes a patch memorable. For Gloria Victis, it's something as simple as additional music during character creation, terrain...
An EVE Online player tried (and failed) to send CCP Games a big bag of tallywhackers
Sending someone a message containing the phrase "eat a bag of dicks" may feel good to type, but it raises a number of logistical...
EVE Evolved: How much trust is too much in EVE Online?
Of all the headlines to come out of EVE Online over the years, the biggest and most far-reaching have been the stories of massive thefts...
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
Gloria Victis shows off the results of its combat upgrade
We don't mean to surprise you, but Gloria Victis involves a whole lot of fighting things. You have various sharp bits of metal that...
The Daily Grind: Does an MMO’s reputation keep you from playing it?
If I could shed a lot of cynicism and years, I think I could've been an EVE Online player. I've always loved sci-fi more...
EVE Online updates to new forums
When you're done wheeling, dealing, and backstabbing in EVE Online, the official forums are the ideal place to talk about all of that (while...
EVE Online calls upon pilots to fight a rogue swarm
If you haven't heard from one of your friends who plays EVE Online lately, it might be because he or she is in the...
