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74,000 WoW Classic accounts just got the banhammer for botting and other cheats
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
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,...
Final Fantasy XI deploys its anniversary event and its June update to the live servers
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
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.
Chinese World of Warcraft players beg NetEase to rescue them from RMT bot infestation
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?
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?
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
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
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...
Wurm Online is officially ending the player-run RMT market in March
For a number of years, Wurm Online has allowed players to transform in-game assets and silver into real-world profit through an RMT system, and...
Shroud of the Avatar boots real-money transactions off its forums
Real-money traders, you are no longer welcome on Shroud of the Avatar's property. At least, that's the message being sent by Catnip Studios, which...
EVE Online’s new HyperNet Relay reintroduces gambling to New Eden
Remember way back in 2016, when CCP Games outlawed gambling in EVE Online's universe after turning a blind eye for over a decade? In...
An MMO character ‘worth’ $1.4M was sold in China for $552
So here's a fun story of people being particularly... odd. Let's go with odd. Player A, hereafter referred to as "Scrooge McDuck," spends the...
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet chased the 2016 Gaile Gray account hacker all the way to Germany – and lost
Back in 2016, MassivelyOP covered an odd story about the Guild Wars franchise and a hack that seemingly involved the account of then-ArenaNet employee...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming announces Issue 26 Page 3, Halloween content, and collab with other rogue servers
City of Heroes' Homecoming servers, rogue or not, are pushing forward into legitimacy. As we've been covering, the servers, which have been publicly outed...
Interview: ArcheAge Unchained’s Merv Lee Kwai on housing, RMT, and the future of the game
The announcement of ArcheAge Unchained and its buy-to-play, no-pay-to-win ruleset has been one of the big surprises of the season for the five-year-old MMORPG...
City of Heroes Homecoming is now banning accounts for… real-money trading
If you thought you could get away with a bit of gold-selling or gold-buying on the side while participating in City of Heroes' rogue...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online is losing players, and no one can agree on why
Nobody wants to think that a favourite MMO is losing popularity, but with EVE Online now being over 15 years old, it's a possibility...
World of Warcraft: Classic’s inevitable goldsellers are using modern chat functions to advertise
Gold selling isn't nearly as much of a thing on modern World of Warcraft like it used to be; the existence of the WoW Token...
EVE Online bans an entire botting corporation, moves EVE Vegas to San Diego starting in 2020
Cheating in EVE Online? It's not the best idea. The latest dispatch from CCP's security team says that it banned 4385 accounts for hacking,...
