sandbox

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.

Choose My Adventure: Postcards from the Star Citizen universe

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Your votes last week in my first Choose My Adventure gave me a great way to start looking around the environs of Star Citizen...

Elite Dangerous’ Beyond – Chapter Four is live today with exploration, background sim, and guilds

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The fourth chapter of Elite Dangerous' Beyond campaign is live today, and if it seems as if we've been covering it forever, that's only...
Teamwork!

The International Olympic Committee casts doubt on the inclusion of esports at the Olympics

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The tug-of-war over whether esports should be included at the Olympic Games is becoming its own sport. In 2017, statements from the Paris Olympic...
Capital city.

EVE Online: Operation Permafrost, the Alaska cruise, and getting your wardec on

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EVE Online is a hoppin' place right now, in spite of the Project Nova downer. For starters, holiday login gifts start rolling out today, while...
Bela Lugosi's dead.

The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvP experience in 2018?

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Later today, we begin our giant rollout of end-of-the-year awards, a series I both love and hate - love because it's fun, hate because...

EVE Evolved: How could Project Nova live up to its true potential?

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I think it's fair to say that EVE Online developer CCP Games hasn't had much success when it comes to avatar-based gameplay. The studio's...

The Game Archaeologist: Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2

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At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...

The Stream Team: A brief Star Citizen road trip

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Before the votes for Choose My Adventure are tallied, MassivelyOP's Chris & MJ are going to take a moment to hop into a pretty...

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018

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It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.

A judge has dismissed another chunk of Crytek’s Star Citizen engine lawsuit

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Happy Christmas, Cloud Imperium. MOP readers will recall that almost exactly a year ago, Crytek sued Star Citizen developer CIG, alleging that CIG infringed its...

Star Citizen shows off Lorville business district for 3.4.0 as alpha 3.3.7 goes live

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Sean Tracy and Steve Bender helm this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, and the dev update focuses on the culture and business district...

Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions

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As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.

Winter festivities descend on both classic EverQuest and EverQuest II

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Daybreak is rolling Christmas out to its classic MMORPGs this week - yes, we call EverQuest I a classic, but really, EverQuest II, which...

Hyperspace Beacon: Why PVPers are abandoning SWTOR – again

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I don't usually like to jump into the PvE-v-PvP debate because no one wins, but I have started to see an exodus of PvPers...

Enter to win a MapleStory 2 Founder Pack Explorer code in honor of the Skybound expansion launch

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As previewed, the first part of the Skybound expansion is live in MapleStory 2 today, complete with the brand-new Soul Binder class, the Sky...
Cool.

Planetside 2 is celebrating Christmas with an array of high-powered festive weapons

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It's time once more for Planetside 2 players to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas by engaging in an endless three-way factional war while wearing...

Legends of Aria AMA covers sandbox endgame, difficulty, balancing, and future content

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Yesterday, devs from Citadel Studios zipped over to Reddit for an AMA all about Legends of Aria, which MMO players will recall just recently hit early access off-steam. Studio boss Derek "Supreem" Brinkmann and lead game designer Jeffrey "Miphon" Edwards sat for questions from the MMORPG sub. While the AMA continues today, here are some of the notable answers posted yesterday:

Dual Universe releases lengthy alpha video demoing its current sandbox content

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Dual Universe has been in alpha only a week, but the team is already celebrating with a new video designed to introduce future gamers...
money money money &c

EVE Online releases its monthly economic report for November

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Didn't we just have an economic report from EVE Online? Yes, we did. However, that report from October came out late, while this report from...
I'm definitely an elf!

Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2018

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Another year is coming to a close! That means we're doing all of our usual end-of-year recaps, and that also means that we're once...

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