Sandboxes are a type of MMO that emphasize player freedom and expression. They frequently include mechanics for building, crafting, trading, character customization and development, roleplaying, destruction, and significant interaction with the world and other players. A sandbox that is dominated by an open-PvP or free-for-all ruleset is sometimes pejoratively called a gankbox. Contrast with the themepark.
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Crowfall and Albion Online are both running big PvP events this weekend
Fans of large-scale MMORPG PvP will find themselves torn over just where to draw their swords this weekend, as two prominent PvP MMOs have...
Star Citizen deep-dives development and rewards, promises more info on 3.5.1 ‘soon’
We hope you really wanted to dig down into the guts of Star Citizen this week because on the latest Inside Star Citizen, Cloud...
ArcheAge’s Black Dragon world boss is live today – best not teach it ‘dracarys’
ArcheAge has been teasing dragons all week - it's the thing to do right now, after all, if you're remotely tuned in to the...
Massively Overthinking: Unpopular MMORPG opinions
Unpopular opinions: We all have them. In fact we have so many that it's a straight up meme. This week's Massively Overthinking is one...
Into the Super-verse: Getting to know City of Heroes all over again
It has been well over a decade since I played City of Heroes with any regularity, and yet when I saw that familiar loading...
Elite: Dangerous player finds a program that lets you hack every aspect of your ship
Cheating is bad behavior, but doing it in a sandbox MMO is several orders of magnitude worse. While Elite: Dangerous has certainly done its...
EVE Online takes steps toward better 64-bit Mac support
If you don't speak development, the fact that EVE Online has deprecated the ccp-master fork and moved to an upstream Wine version for the game's...
Durango: Wild Lands has officially launched to US Android users
One of the arguably larger sandbox MMORPGs to come to mobile gaming -- a sentence I never thought I'd type if I'm honest --...
Perfect Ten: The 10 most adorable MMORPGs ever
We all like to think of ourselves as cultured and deep individuals who routinely calculate square roots and recite Gilbert and Sullivan at dinner...
Black Desert Online offers up a new poacher to hunt while starting a guild attendance event on Xbox One
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 220: Everybody gets a dragon!
Justin and Bree discuss City of Heroes, lockboxes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Guild Wars 2, RIFT, ZeniMax, and New World, with a mailbag question about epic MMO character creators.
The Daily Grind: Do you still want a Game of Thrones MMORPG?
I'm sure that at some point in the last 4200 or so Daily Grinds we've done on Massively OP and Massively-that-was over these many...
EVE Evolved: What really sets Russian EVE players apart?
One of the most interesting things about EVE Online is the fact that its single shard server forces players from different countries and cultures...
RuneScape proposes some adjustments to the Completionist Cape
I don't pretend to have my fingers on the pulse of the wider RuneScape community, but it would appear that there's been some discussion...
Darkfall Rise of Agon lays out its upcoming in-game browser overhaul and armor system revamp in latest dev blog
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Legends of Aria’s meaty cooking revamp adds ingredient-based buffs and gardening harvests
True story: I love video game skills like cooking and gardening in MMOs, chiefly because I do not love them in real life -...
EVE Online releases its monthly economic report for April 2019
It is possible that you are not the target audience for the EVE Online monthly economic report. If you aren't looking forward to frowning with...
RuneScape’s Desperate Times quest kicks off a new series of epic quests
No rest for the wicked or the divine, depending on how you roleplay your RuneScape character, assuming you do at all: This week, Desperate...
City of Heroes community forms Round Table as Homecoming rogue servers count over 56,000 players
Multiple City of Heroes groups now say they're working under yet another initiative to bring the rogue server community together.
"The Round Table has been...
MapleStory 2 announces Awakening expansion at MapleStory Fest 2019
The sold-out MapleStory Fest 2019 ran this past weekend as classic MapleStory celebrated 14 years online and MapleStory 2 announced a huge expansion called...
