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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Pathfinder Online has a roadmap forward and a plan for completion
If you'd lost hope in Pathfinder Online ever making any forward motion again, you should be happy to see that there's a new letter...
EVE Online overhauls PLEX currency system, ending tales of PLEX-stuffed ship destruction
CCP announced this morning that it's overhauling PLEX in EVE Online. As the currency works now, players buy the 30-day sub token known as PLEX...
Albion Online AMA on pay-to-win, free trials, and global servers
Sandbox Interactive ran an AMA for its in-development indie MMO Albion Online on Reddit last night, covering everything from the game's business model to...
What ever happened to Darkfall, Fallen Earth, and Runes of Magic?
It bears repeating that here on Massively OP, we cover an immensely wide field of live games -- so many that it can sometimes...
EVE Online players lead $14,000 massacre in a busy trade hub
It's said that you're never truly safe in EVE Online unless you're docked or logged off, and sometimes not even then. If someone wants you...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when your MMO looks like a ‘fire sale at an exotic pet store’
Massively OP Podcast listener John recently sent us a really great question that saw Justin and me sharply divided in terms of our responses,...
The Perfect Ten: A plague of MMO bears
I have long been of the opinion that there are few more terrifying animals on this planet than bears. Sure, there are sharks, the...
EVE Online starts CSM voting, posts whole bunches o’ numbers and graphs
The space air is electric with excitement as EVE Online has opened up the vote for the next members of the Council of Stellar...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 107: Dark Knight rises
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW, Torment, Black Desert, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online maintenance mode, WildStar, Darkfall Rise of Agon, Path of Exile, and Revelation Online's soft launch, with mailbag questions on console vs. PC MMO fans and dealing with immersion-breaking mounts.
Crowfall video addresses group balance, disciplines, and skill training
Crowfall Design Lead Thomas Blair and Senior Game Designer Mark Halash are back today with a new Q&A video answering player queries. Here are...
Dean Hall’s space sandbox MMO Ion is dead
Way back in 2015, Dean Hall announced Ion, a ridiculously ambitious sci-fi space sandbox MMO built using Improbable's SpatialOS. And now it's dead.
Eurogamer went...
EVE Evolved: Hints of EVE Online’s summer update
The EVE Online community was a little surprised this week by what appeared to be the accidental early reveal of the feature list for this summer's...
Here’s how that H1Z1 TV broadcast deal went down
Were you scratching your head over last week's announcement that H1Z1 would be bringing its upcoming PvP tournament to the CW network? We were...
EVE Online saw big bump in players and profits in 2016
Don't count EVE Online as over and out just yet. The long-running space sandbox reported a remarkably good year for 2016, posting an increase...
Darkfall: Rise of Agon launches on May 5
Remember how Darkfall: Rise of Agon's team mentioned last month that the game was roughly four months away from launch? That seemed kind of...
Sparc is CCP’s new non-EVE VR sports simulator, due out 2017
A couple of weeks ago, I was puzzling over the fact that besides a few golfing and racing games, we don't have many sports...
H1Z1’s newest $300,000 tournament will be televised
In April, you won't have to turn to Twitch to see professional teams beat the crap out of each other in H1Z1 -- you'll...
The Game Archaeologist: Earth and Beyond
Personally, I prefer science fiction over fantasy nine times out of ten, even though most of the MMOs that grace my desktop are fantasy...
The Daily Grind: When do ‘offensive’ guild names go too far?
Oh, it just wouldn't be a week without some EVE Online drama, now would it? The latest episode revolves around an alliance whose name,...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that help you get your spaceship on
Sometimes even the most die-hard MMORPG player finds him or herself a little tired of constantly looking at the back of a head and...
