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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,...
The Daily Grind: What’s been the biggest change to the MMORPG genre in the last 20 years?
A while back, there was a thread on Reddit from a younger MMO player who was curious about changes to the way players perceived...
Entropia Universe players invested the equivalent of $500,000 to own a space station
Virtual world MMO Entropia Universe is no stranger to bizarre news stories. We've covered investors divvying up the moon, selling unique weapons for over...
Massively Overthinking: If an MMO item is buyable with gold, does that excuse its presence in the cash shop?
This week's Overthinking topic comes from longtime MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls. It's about monetization, but it's a nuanced argument we don't see...
Wandering Wraeclast: First impressions of Path of Exile’s Synthesis
Something's different about Wraeclast. The air, the ground... it's changed. What could it be? If I could just put my finger on it before...
EVE Evolved: The war on bots in EVE Online
The news dropped recently that EVE Online will be adding some new limitations and restrictions to its free-to-play tier, which may seem odd to...
EVE Online changes F2P mission access to combat bots and releases its first economic report of 2019
There's been an unfortunate increase of RMT activity in New Eden recently, and in the delicate balancing act that is the in-game economy of...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online has a gambling problem
The gambling debate has kicked off again in EVE Online, this time in response to the annual Guardian's Gala event that's currently running throughout...
EVE Online cracks down on cheaters, again, and contemplates more free-to-play gates
You'd think that people might think twice about cheating in EVE Online, given that in 2018 alone, the company banned tens of thousands of...
Wings Over Atreia: Aion’s abolished trading, and other foolish moves
So I really did not want to write a rant for Christmas week. No, I wanted -- nay, I planned -- a joyous column...
