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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H1Z1: Just Survive tests out quality-of-life update, conducts community survey
Could Daybreak be making good on its promise to give some love to H1Z1: Just Survive? It certainly seems so now that there's a...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic
While some of us are toiling away on the ground in plate armor while fighting furry monstrosities, there's a whole world of internet spaceships...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMORPG bookworm
Hey you! Yeah, the player who actually reads quest text and lore entries when all of the other hooting madmen are furiously clicking past...
Global Chat: Recapturing the MMO magic
I suspect that much of the willingness of players to pour money into MMO Kickstarters is out of a strong desire to see games...
The Daily Grind: What’s the friendliest PvP encounter you’ve ever had in an MMORPG?
Not long ago, my little family detoured from our weekend road trip to have lunch with MOP's Eliot and his wife. Video games were...
EVE Online hits 50k concurrent users with its free-to-play shift
Players who want to jump in on EVE Online without paying for it now have the option to do just that; the game's most...
Darkfall: New Dawn kicks off free-play stress test through the holiday
Darkfall: New Dawn is currently in the middle of a free stress test, so if you're looking for a brutal sandbox to call home...
The MOP Up: Wurm Online cooks up a hearty Thanksgiving meal (November 20, 2016)
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...
The Stream Team: Checking out EVE as free-to-play
Here's something you may not have expected to ever see: Massively OP's MJ in EVE Online! It's not because she has never played (she...
EVE Online’s latest tool lets you simulate ship builds
One of the new tools that EVE Online has handed to new and experienced players with this week's Ascension expansion is simply called the...
Choose My Adventure: Don’t call it a comeback
Hello, dear readers. Would you like to tell me what to do for a while?
Choose My Adventure has been absent from the site for...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 91: Accounting 101
Justin and Bree talk NCsoft & Nexon, Neocron, Marvel Heroes, SWTOR, EVE Online, Black Desert, Twin Saga, and The Secret World, with mailbag questions on MMO factions and Blizzard's duty to the genre, plus a preview of the second part of our Mark Jacobs interview.
EVE Online is officially free-to-play today with Ascension
"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!"Â That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...
The Daily Grind: Are you going back to EVE Online today?
EVE Online's Ascension expansion launches today, dropping the subscription paywall that's barricaded the game for well over a decade and further reducing the small...
EVE Online preps for tomorrow’s F2P transition, requests patience and feedback
"We are ready to bring you clone states and Ascension tomorrow," CCP's Andie Nordgren tells EVE Online players in a dev update today on...
Crowfall on the big world, factions, and safeguarding player cities
In Crowfall's November Q&A "is all about Big World," Design Lead Thomas Blair declares, kicking off the episode alongside Creative Director J. Todd Coleman....
EVE Evolved: Three essential tips for new alpha clone players
EVE Online's Ascension expansion goes live in just two days on Tuesday November 15th, introducing the new free-to-play alpha clone state and completely overhauling...
The MOP Up: Gunjack 2 gets a launch date (November 13, 2016)
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...
EVE Online moves toward email verification
Heads up, space jockeys: An additional layer of account security is heading to EVE Online with this month's Ascension expansion.
CCP announced that it is...
Working As Intended: Westworld is a sandbox MMORPG on your TV
Westworld has emerged this fall as the geek obsession TV show, a gunslinger's LOST about which people can't stop talking and theorizing and debating....
