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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Perfect Ten: The best MMORPG updates and expansions of 2016 (that aren’t Legion)
Sometimes you have to exclude something from a list. I could, for example, praise World of Warcraft: Legion for being a really good expansion...
The best Massively OP streams of 2016
The number of games our wee little Stream Team covers in the span of a year is staggering. If you ever wanted to know...
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