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The Daily Grind: When should MMO companies intervene in borky MMO economies?

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On this week's MassivelyOP podcast, Justin and I answered a question about whether MMO studios have a responsibility to monitor and nudge the player...
These are your final days.

Final Fantasy XIV bans over 5,000 accounts for RMT activity

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Trading real money for gil in Final Fantasy XIV is expressly forbidden. Players shouldn't do that if they want to keep their accounts. Apparently more...
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Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis shares details about the game’s personal shop

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With a planned release for Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis this year, fans of the game are no doubt eager to understand more about...
Light reading.

Albion Online bans more than 600 accounts for buying currency

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You are probably aware that buying Silver in Albion Online from a third-party site is not allowed, not least because there's a legitimate first-party option...

World of Warcraft multiboxing just got a whole lot harder thanks to Blizzard’s new policy

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World of Warcraft players who use multiple accounts simultaneously will find their favored gameplay much harder going forward, as last night Blizzard announced that...

Phantasy Star Online 2 forms an ARKS League and bans over 10K RMT accounts

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Want to join the ARKS League? Players of Phantasy Star Online 2 are being invited to do precisely that in an announcement post of...
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Final Fantasy XIV bans gilselling accounts as its free login event rolls out

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Gilselling, also known as goldselling, also known as RMT, also known as "that thing you're not allowed to do in most games and especially Final...

Massively Overthinking: How to deal with cheater scum in MMORPGs

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I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters...

EVE Online’s Depths of the Abyss is live as CCP updates policies and World War Bee 2 endures

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EVE Online has lots going on this week, from patches to policies to drama. Let's dig in: First, this week's patch, Depths of the...
It's on my list of 'things you did wrong,' yeah.

Blizzard staffers agitate against poor worker pay as Activision-Blizzard rakes in billions

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Blizzard's labor practices have been under scrutiny over the last couple of years, propelled in large part due to mass-layoffs at the top of...
I'm going to master letting this play instead of me.

WoW Classic sees another 40,000 accounts banned for botting and RMT as cases surge

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The war against the hungry bot horde continues in WoW Classic. Shortly after Blizzard gave 74,000 accounts the boot, the devs have once again...
Very mature.

74,000 WoW Classic accounts just got the banhammer for botting and other cheats

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This'll shock you, but not everyone playing WoW Classic is doing it for the thrill of an arguably more hardcore experience: Some people are...

Star Sonata 2 arrives on Steam as Wurm Online preps for Steam launch July 24

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Steam's getting a few new MMO options, namely Wurm Online and Star Sonata 2. The Steam page for Wurm confirms a release date of Friday,...
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Final Fantasy XI deploys its anniversary event and its June update to the live servers

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Players had to wait a little bit longer for Final Fantasy XI's anniversary event this year, due to the whole... global pandemic thing. Fortunately, the...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 272: Death of dragons

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Justin and Bree discuss Fallout 76, WoW China, MMO financials, Dragon's Prophet, Guild Wars 2, and Aion, with adventures in SWG Legends and Elder Scrolls online, plus mailbag topics on character select screens and new classes for expansions.
Twists.

Chinese World of Warcraft players beg NetEase to rescue them from RMT bot infestation

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How is World of Warcraft doing in China? If one player's collected account is anything to go by, not well at all. A Chinese...

The Daily Grind: Is there an MMO paradigm shift you didn’t see coming a decade ago?

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One thing I'm particularly proud of is that the MOP staff and MMO community - then on old Massively - were waaaaay out in...

Massively Overthinking: What MMO topics have you changed your mind on over the years?

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On last week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I took a stab at answering a fun question from MOP reader and listener Pieter about...

Wurm Online has officially ended its real money trade market

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Players of Wurm Online already knew that this was coming, but now it's officially official: The real money trade market has been officially halted...

Wurm Online further details changes to Followers and Traders, shows off some new item racks

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If you've been eager for people to compliment your rack in Wurm Online, you'll have a chance to do so very soon according to...

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