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.

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Star Trek Online hands out free ships today, but you’ll have to pay for a chance of one from Discovery

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Happy Free Ship Day! This isn't us being cute; it's an actual holiday promoted by Star Trek Online every year on its anniversary. Just...

PSA: Darkfall New Dawn is free-to-play right now ahead of next week’s launch

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If you've been curious about the indie spinoff Darkfall: New Dawn but aren't sure yet about plunking down pre-order cash, then you'll be interested...

Star Citizen explains where baby ships come from

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Star Citizen just wouldn't be Star Citizen without its obsession with meticulously crafted starships, and they're exactly the focus of the Ship Shape segment...

Massively Overthinking: Tackling our hoarding problem in MMORPGs

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By coincidence, two articles in my feeds this past week both centered on video game hoarding - not hoarding the actual games but hoarding...

The Stream Team: Back to the Egyptian sandbox in Secret World Legends

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Even though Massively OP's MJ rushed ahead through Secret World Legends' main story so she wouldn't miss out on Krampusnacht lore, there's still much...

EVE Online’s upwell structures get a wellness upgrade

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Some of EVE Online's player-built space platforms -- known as upwell structures -- are getting a massive upgrade in the game's upcoming February update....

Multiplayer survival sandbox Memories of Mars targets spring 2018 early access launch

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It's possible the Mars-themed survival sandbox genre is a niche that's already heavily saturated, but that's not stopping Memories of Mars, which we will...

Albion Online characterizes layoffs as downsizing to ‘pre-release beta testing’ levels

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Earlier this week, we got a tip claiming that the Albion Online team had been severely cut back before Christmas, perhaps as much as...

Darkfall: New Dawn tacks on titles and opens local banks for business

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Did anyone in class today remember that Darkfall: New Dawn is officially launching, oh, next week? Don't worry, it kind of slipped our mind...

Black Desert banned 647 cheaters over the last month, mostly fish botters, which is a thing

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Thinking about cheating in Black Desert? Probably not; cheaters are hiding out in the bowels of the internet trading hacks with the other script...
Making my way no matter how bad it looks.

Choose My Adventure: Yes, Project Gorgon is a weird game

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I want to start this column by saying the absolute meanest thing I have to say about Project Gorgon, and that one is probably...

Camelot Unchained lands $7.5M investment to hasten development: Our chat with Mark Jacobs on funding, VR, and beta one

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If you know one thing about indie MMORPG Camelot Unchained, it's that CEO Mark Jacobs appears to dwell perpetually in internet comment sections amiably...

Crowfall’s Raph Koster goes into insane depth on the cost of creating video games

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If you have an exceptional memory, you might recall that a couple of months ago, Crowfall and Star Wars Galaxies designer Raph Koster wrote...

Battle Bards Episode 113: Anarchy Online

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Alien, quiet, and weird — that’s the Anarchy Online soundtrack for you in a nutshell. For the first episode of 2018, the ever-contentious Battle...
It's a fooler.

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2018

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This is, bar none, the column I hate doing most on a regular basis. None of the games I highlight in here is something...

Black Desert adds sailboat quest, drop rate tweaks, and way more polar bears

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Pull out your ancient "I'm on a boat" and "you are a pirate" memes because Black Desert is about to give you reason to...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 153: It’s a whole New World

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW, DDO, New World, RIFT, Elite, and ArcheAge, with a mailbag question on easing into full-scale MMO sandboxes.

CCP addresses EVE Online botter problem, saying it’s at the ‘top of the list’

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Last week, we reported on a situation brewing on the EVE Online subreddit, where player after player spoke out about the game's botting problem,...

Gloria Victis adds treasure hunting and preps female characters

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It's been a while since we last checked in with Gloria Victis, so let us see what is going on with this medieval MMORPG,...
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City of Titans drafts volunteer to build metro landmarks

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Considering that it's City of Titans and not Prairies of Titans or Lonely Country Road of Titans, it's safe to assume that this indie...

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